Auto Scaling Group Cooldown Period

01 Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to EC2 dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

03 In the left navigation panel, under AUTO SCALING section, choose Auto Scaling Groups.

04 Select the AWS ASG that you want to examine.

05 Select Details tab from the dashboard bottom panel and verify the Default Cooldown setting value. If the current value set for this attribute is zero:

or less than the one defined on your Cloud Conformity console, the cooldown period feature is not properly configured for the selected Amazon ASG, therefore during auto-scaling process any additional instances can be launched or terminated before the previous scaling activity takes effect.

06 Repeat step no. 4 and 5 to verify the cooldown period for other AWS ASGs available in the selected region.

07 Change the AWS region from the navigation bar and repeat the audit process for other regions.

01 Run describe-auto-scaling-groups command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) to list the names of all Auto Scaling Groups created within the selected AWS region:

aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups
	--region us-east-1
	--output table
	--query 'AutoScalingGroups[*].AutoScalingGroupName'

02 The command output should return a table with the requested ASG names:

---------------------------
|DescribeAutoScalingGroups|
+-------------------------+
|  CloudConformityWebASG  |
|  MobileAppDynamicASG    |
+-------------------------+

03 Run again describe-auto-scaling-groups command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the ASG returned at the previous step as identifier and custom query filters to expose the default cooldown period (in seconds) set for selected Auto Scaling Group:

aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups
	--region us-east-1
	--auto-scaling-group-names CloudConformityWebASG
	--query 'AutoScalingGroups[*].DefaultCooldown'

04 The command output should return an array with the requested value (seconds):

[
   0
]

05 Repeat steps no. 3 and 4 to verify the default cooldown period for other AWS ASGs provisioned in the selected region.

06 Repeat steps no. 1 – 5 to repeat the entire audit process for other AWS regions.

01 Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to EC2 dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

03 In the navigation panel, under AUTO SCALING section, choose Auto Scaling Groups.

04 Select the AWS ASG that you want to reconfigure (see Audit section part I to identify the right resource).

05 Select the Details tab from the dashboard bottom panel and click the Edit button:

to edit the selected group configuration.

06 Enter the desired value for your ASG cooldown period in the Default Cooldown box then click the Save button to apply the configuration changes.

07 Repeat steps no. 4 – 6 to reconfigure other AWS Auto Scaling Groups available in the current region and implement your custom cooldown period.

08 Change the AWS region from the navigation bar and repeat the remediation process for other regions.

01 Run update-auto-scaling-group command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the AWS ASG that you want to reconfigure as identifier to set the required value (in seconds) for the default cooldown period (the command does not produce an output):

aws autoscaling update-auto-scaling-group
	--region us-east-1
	--auto-scaling-group-name CloudConformityWebASG
	--default-cooldown 300

02 Repeat step no. 1 to update the cooldown period value for other AWS Auto Scaling Groups provisioned in the current region.

03 Change the AWS region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat step no. 1 and 2 perform the entire process for other regions.