
describe-policies
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DESCRIPTION
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Returns descriptions of what each policy does. This action supports
pagination. If the response includes a token, there are more records
available. To get the additional records, repeat the request with the
response token as the "--next-token" parameter.


SYNOPSIS
========

   aws autoscaling describe-policies
     [--policy-names <value>]
     [--max-records <value>]
     [--next-token <value>]
     [--auto-scaling-group-name <value>]


REQUIRED PARAMETERS
===================

None


OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
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"--policy-names"  (list of string)
   A list of policy names or policy ARNs to be described. If this list
   is omitted, all policy names are described. If an auto scaling
   group name is provided, the results are limited to that group. The
   list of requested policy names cannot contain more than 50 items.
   If unknown policy names are requested, they are ignored with no
   error.

   *Parameter Syntax*

      ["string", ...]

"--max-records"  (integer)
   The maximum number of policies that will be described with each
   call.

"--next-token"  (string)
   A string that is used to mark the start of the next batch of
   returned results for pagination.

"--auto-scaling-group-name"  (string)
   The name of the Auto Scaling group.
