**To move instances out of standby mode** This example moves the specified instance out of standby mode:: aws autoscaling exit-standby --instance-ids i-93633f9b --auto-scaling-group-name my-auto-scaling-group The following is example output:: { "Activities": [ { "Description": "Moving EC2 instance out of Standby: i-93633f9b", "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-auto-scaling-group", "ActivityId": "142928e1-a2dc-453a-9b24-b85ad6735928", "Details": {"Availability Zone": "us-west-2a"}, "StartTime": "2015-04-12T15:14:29.886Z", "Progress": 30, "Cause": "At 2015-04-12T15:14:29Z instance i-93633f9b was moved out of standby in response to a user request, increasing the capacity from 1 to 2.", "StatusCode": "PreInService" } ] }