name : describe-scaling-plans.rst **To describe a scaling plan** The following ``describe-scaling-plans`` example displays the details of the specified scaling plan. :: aws autoscaling-plans describe-scaling-plans \ --scaling-plan-names scaling-plan-with-asg-and-ddb Output:: { "ScalingPlans": [ { "LastMutatingRequestTime": 1565388443.963, "ScalingPlanVersion": 1, "CreationTime": 1565388443.963, "ScalingInstructions": [ { "ScalingPolicyUpdateBehavior": "ReplaceExternalPolicies", "ScalableDimension": "autoscaling:autoScalingGroup:DesiredCapacity", "TargetTrackingConfigurations": [ { "PredefinedScalingMetricSpecification": { "PredefinedScalingMetricType": "ASGAverageCPUUtilization" }, "TargetValue": 50.0, "EstimatedInstanceWarmup": 300, "DisableScaleIn": false } ], "ResourceId": "autoScalingGroup/my-asg", "DisableDynamicScaling": false, "MinCapacity": 1, "ServiceNamespace": "autoscaling", "MaxCapacity": 10 }, { "ScalingPolicyUpdateBehavior": "ReplaceExternalPolicies", "ScalableDimension": "dynamodb:table:ReadCapacityUnits", "TargetTrackingConfigurations": [ { "PredefinedScalingMetricSpecification": { "PredefinedScalingMetricType": "DynamoDBReadCapacityUtilization" }, "TargetValue": 50.0, "ScaleInCooldown": 60, "DisableScaleIn": false, "ScaleOutCooldown": 60 } ], "ResourceId": "table/my-table", "DisableDynamicScaling": false, "MinCapacity": 5, "ServiceNamespace": "dynamodb", "MaxCapacity": 10000 }, { "ScalingPolicyUpdateBehavior": "ReplaceExternalPolicies", "ScalableDimension": "dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits", "TargetTrackingConfigurations": [ { "PredefinedScalingMetricSpecification": { "PredefinedScalingMetricType": "DynamoDBWriteCapacityUtilization" }, "TargetValue": 50.0, "ScaleInCooldown": 60, "DisableScaleIn": false, "ScaleOutCooldown": 60 } ], "ResourceId": "table/my-table", "DisableDynamicScaling": false, "MinCapacity": 5, "ServiceNamespace": "dynamodb", "MaxCapacity": 10000 } ], "ApplicationSource": { "TagFilters": [ { "Values": [ "my-application-id" ], "Key": "application" } ] }, "StatusStartTime": 1565388455.836, "ScalingPlanName": "scaling-plan-with-asg-and-ddb", "StatusMessage": "Scaling plan has been created and applied to all resources.", "StatusCode": "Active" } ] } For more information, see `What Is AWS Auto Scaling? <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/plans/userguide/what-is-aws-auto-scaling.html>`__ in the *AWS Auto Scaling User Guide*.