state

The state of the compute environment. A compute environment must be created in the ENABLED state.

If the state is ENABLED, then the compute environment accepts jobs from a queue and can scale out automatically based on queues.

If the state is ENABLED, then the Batch scheduler can attempt to place jobs from an associated job queue on the compute resources within the environment. If the compute environment is managed, then it can scale its instances out or in automatically, based on the job queue demand.

If the state is DISABLED, then the Batch scheduler doesn't attempt to place jobs within the environment. Jobs in a STARTING or RUNNING state continue to progress normally. Managed compute environments in the DISABLED state don't scale out.

Compute environments in a DISABLED state may continue to incur billing charges, for example, if they have running instances due to jobs that are still executing or a non-zero minvCpus setting. To prevent additional charges, disable and delete the compute environment.

When an instance is idle, the instance scales down to the minvCpus value. However, the instance size doesn't change. For example, consider a c5.8xlarge instance with a minvCpus value of 4 and a desiredvCpus value of 36. This instance doesn't scale down to a c5.large instance.