**To describe Auto Scaling policies** This example describes the policies for the specified Auto Scaling group:: aws autoscaling describe-policies --auto-scaling-group-name my-auto-scaling-group The following is example output:: { "ScalingPolicies": [ { "PolicyName": "ScaleIn", "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-auto-scaling-group", "PolicyARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scalingPolicy:2233f3d7-6290-403b-b632-93c553560106:autoScalingGroupName/my-auto-scaling-group:policyName/ScaleIn", "AdjustmentType": "ChangeInCapacity", "Alarms": [], "ScalingAdjustment": -1 }, { "PolicyName": "ScalePercentChange", "MinAdjustmentStep": 2, "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-auto-scaling-group", "PolicyARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scalingPolicy:2b435159-cf77-4e89-8c0e-d63b497baad7:autoScalingGroupName/my-auto-scaling-group:policyName/ScalePercentChange", "Cooldown": 60, "AdjustmentType": "PercentChangeInCapacity", "Alarms": [], "ScalingAdjustment": 25 } ] } To return specific scaling policies, use the ``policy-names`` parameter:: aws autoscaling describe-policies --auto-scaling-group-name my-auto-scaling-group --policy-names ScaleIn To return a specific number of policies, use the ``max-items`` parameter:: aws autoscaling describe-policies --auto-scaling-group-name my-auto-scaling-group --max-items 1 The following is example output:: { "ScalingPolicies": [ { "PolicyName": "ScaleIn", "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-auto-scaling-group", "PolicyARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scalingPolicy:2233f3d7-6290-403b-b632-93c553560106:autoScalingGroupName/my-auto-scaling-group:policyName/ScaleIn", "AdjustmentType": "ChangeInCapacity", "Alarms": [], "ScalingAdjustment": -1 } ], "NextToken": "Z3M3LMPEXAMPLE" } If the output includes a ``NextToken`` field, use the value of this field with the ``starting-token`` parameter in a subsequent call to get the additional policies:: aws autoscaling describe-policies --auto-scaling-group-name my-auto-scaling-group --starting-token Z3M3LMPEXAMPLE For more information, see `Dynamic Scaling`_ in the *Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide*. .. _`Dynamic Scaling`: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scale-based-on-demand.html