Temporarily disable AWS auto-scaling group activities

• We can remove the Default option in Termination policies and then stop your instance so that it doesnt pop up a new instamnce when you stop your instance and you can make necessary changes to it.

Alternatively,

• In the autoscaling lingo, what you are asking about is suspending processes. In a nutshell each of the autoscaling activities (launch, terminate etc.) can be disabled for as long as you want.

It doesn't look you can set this from the web console (although it does display what processes are available), so you'll either have to use the api or the command line tools

From the cli that's just

aws autoscaling suspend-processes --auto-scaling-group-name MyGroup

and later on

aws autoscaling resume-processes --auto-scaling-group-name MyGroup

You can pass specific processes to suspend resume as extra arguments, but you probably don't need to do that.