--- title: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in... description: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a new AWS CloudFormation update policy. By configuring the AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-now-supports-instance-refresh-in-cloudformation-r30owbpbm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation | daily.dev og:description: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a new AWS CloudFormation update policy. By configuring the AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-now-supports-instance-refresh-in-cloudformation-r30owbpbm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/R30OwbPBM.png og:image:alt: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a new AWS CloudFormation update policy. By configuring the AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy, CloudFormation automatically triggers an Instance Refresh when instance replacement is required. The integration brings capabilities like replace root volume for in-place updates, launch-before-terminate, alarm-based monitoring, and checkpoints with bake time for controlled rollouts. Auto Scaling features such as scaling policies and health checks remain active during updates, and rollback is handled via CloudFormation stack rollback. Available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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