**To describe Auto Scaling launch configurations** This example describes the specified launch configuration:: aws autoscaling describe-launch-configurations --launch-configuration-names my-launch-config The following is example output:: { "LaunchConfigurations": [ { "UserData": null, "EbsOptimized": false, "LaunchConfigurationARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:launchConfiguration:98d3b196-4cf9-4e88-8ca1-8547c24ced8b:launchConfigurationName/my-launch-config", "InstanceMonitoring": { "Enabled": true }, "ImageId": "ami-043a5034", "CreatedTime": "2014-05-07T17:39:28.599Z", "BlockDeviceMappings": [], "KeyName": null, "SecurityGroups": [ "sg-67ef0308" ], "LaunchConfigurationName": "my-launch-config", "KernelId": null, "RamdiskId": null, "InstanceType": "t1.micro", "AssociatePublicIpAddress": true } ] } To return a specific number of launch configurations, use the ``max-items`` parameter:: aws autoscaling describe-launch-configurations --max-items 1 The following is example output:: { "NextToken": "Z3M3LMPEXAMPLE", "LaunchConfigurations": [ { "UserData": null, "EbsOptimized": false, "LaunchConfigurationARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:launchConfiguration:98d3b196-4cf9-4e88-8ca1-8547c24ced8b:launchConfigurationName/my-launch-config", "InstanceMonitoring": { "Enabled": true }, "ImageId": "ami-043a5034", "CreatedTime": "2014-05-07T17:39:28.599Z", "BlockDeviceMappings": [], "KeyName": null, "SecurityGroups": [ "sg-67ef0308" ], "LaunchConfigurationName": "my-launch-config", "KernelId": null, "RamdiskId": null, "InstanceType": "t1.micro", "AssociatePublicIpAddress": true } ] } If the output includes a ``NextToken`` field, there are more launch configurations. To get the additional launch configurations, use the value of this field with the ``starting-token`` parameter in a subsequent call as follows:: aws autoscaling describe-launch-configurations --starting-token Z3M3LMPEXAMPLE