---
title: Auto Scaling Scheduled Action
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
breadcrumbs: Docs > DDSQL Reference > Data Directory > Auto Scaling Scheduled Action
---
# Auto Scaling Scheduled Action
This table represents the Auto Scaling Scheduled Action resource from Amazon Web Services.
```
aws.autoscaling_scheduled_action
```
## Fields
| Title | ID | Type | Data Type | Description |
| ----------------------- | ---- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| _key | core | string |
| account_id | core | string |
| auto_scaling_group_name | core | string | The name of the Auto Scaling group. |
| desired_capacity | core | int64 | The desired capacity is the initial capacity of the Auto Scaling group after the scheduled action runs and the capacity it attempts to maintain. |
| end_time | core | timestamp | The date and time in UTC for the recurring schedule to end. For example, "2019-06-01T00:00:00Z". |
| max_size | core | int64 | The maximum size of the Auto Scaling group. |
| min_size | core | int64 | The minimum size of the Auto Scaling group. |
| recurrence | core | string | The recurring schedule for the action, in Unix cron syntax format. When StartTime and EndTime are specified with Recurrence, they form the boundaries of when the recurring action starts and stops. |
| scheduled_action_arn | core | string | The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the scheduled action. |
| scheduled_action_name | core | string | The name of the scheduled action. |
| start_time | core | timestamp | The date and time in UTC for this action to start. For example, "2019-06-01T00:00:00Z". |
| tags | core | hstore_csv |
| time | core | timestamp | This property is no longer used. |
| time_zone | core | string | The time zone for the cron expression. |