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This article addresses the need to preserve unhealthy AWS Auto Scaling Group (ASG) instances for analysis. It introduces a Lambda-based solution to retain these instances, circumventing ASG's automatic termination. The piece outlines how to use CloudFormation for easy setup, enabling detailed investigation of instance failures without affecting ASG performance. The goal is to enhance troubleshooting efficiency and system reliability through automated, user-friendly configurations.

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This article addresses the need to preserve unhealthy AWS Auto Scaling Group (ASG) instances for analysis. It introduces a Lambda-based solution to retain these instances, circumventing ASG's automatic termination. The piece outlines how to use CloudFormation for easy setup, enabling detailed investigation of instance failures without affecting ASG performance. The goal is to enhance troubleshooting efficiency and system reliability through automated, user-friendly configurations.

for asg_name in ASG_NAMES:
unhealthy_instances, desired_capacity = process_asg(asg_name)
max_detach_by_percent = int(desired_capacity * 0.1)
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Please change this line to:
max_detach_by_percent = max(int(desired_capacity * 0.1),1) # Ensure minimum 1 if there are unhealthy instances.
Otherwise, when the desired capacity is less than 10. This script won't detach any unhealthy instance. Thank you!

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