/// <summary>
/// detact this instance from the ASG
/// and decrement the ASG desired
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
private bool DetachFromAutoScalingGroup()
{
bool returnValue = false;
using (AmazonAutoScalingClient scalingClient = new AmazonAutoScalingClient())
{
DetachInstancesRequest detachRequest = new DetachInstancesRequest
{
AutoScalingGroupName = _AutoScalingGroupName,
InstanceIds = new List <string>(new string[] { _InstanceId }),
ShouldDecrementDesiredCapacity = true
};
try
{
DetachInstancesResponse detachResponse = scalingClient.DetachInstancesAsync(detachRequest).Result;
if (detachResponse.HttpStatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
returnValue = true;
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
//Yes AWS throws Exceptions and System.AggregrateExceptions
//so for now this is the right way to handle it
returnValue = false;
}
}
return(returnValue);
}
