**To create a capacity provider** The following create-capacity-provider example creates a capacity provider that uses an Auto Scaling group named MyASG, has managed scaling and managed termination protection enabled. This configuration is used for Amazon ECS cluster auto scaling. :: aws ecs create-capacity-provider \ --name "MyCapacityProvider" \ --auto-scaling-group-provider "autoScalingGroupArn=arn:aws:autoscaling:us-east-1:123456789012:autoScalingGroup:57ffcb94-11f0-4d6d-bf60-3bac5EXAMPLE:autoScalingGroupName/MyASG,managedScaling={status=ENABLED,targetCapacity=100},managedTerminationProtection=ENABLED" Output:: { "capacityProvider": { "capacityProviderArn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789012:capacity-provider/MyCapacityProvider", "name": "MyCapacityProvider", "status": "ACTIVE", "autoScalingGroupProvider": { "autoScalingGroupArn": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-east-1:132456789012:autoScalingGroup:57ffcb94-11f0-4d6d-bf60-3bac5EXAMPLE:autoScalingGroupName/MyASG", "managedScaling": { "status": "ENABLED", "targetCapacity": 100, "minimumScalingStepSize": 1, "maximumScalingStepSize": 10000, "instanceWarmupPeriod": 300 }, "managedTerminationProtection": "ENABLED" }, "tags": [] } For more information, see `Amazon ECS cluster auto scaling <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/cluster-auto-scaling.html>`__ in the *Amazon ECS Developer Guide*.