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DescribeLimits

Last update:
May 18, 2026

Description

This function returns the existing provisioned-capacity limits for your AWS account in a region, both for the region and the table that has already been created in the region.
For more information, see DescribeLimits.

Category

History

ColdFusion (2021 release): Added this function.

Syntax

serviceHandle.describeLimits(requestParameters)

Parameters

See request parameters for DescribeLimits.

Example

<cfscript> 
 cred = { 
    "credentialAlias" : "myalias", 
    "vendorName" : "AWS", 
    "region" : "us-east-2", 
    "secretAccessKey" : "xxxxx", 
    "accessKeyId" : "xxxx" 
  } 
  config = { 
    "serviceName" = "DYNAMODB" 
  } 
  dynamo = getCloudService(cred, config) 
  describeStruct=StructNew() 
  describeLimitsResponse=dynamo.describeLimits(describeStruct) 
  writeOutput("Account Max Read Capacity Units: " & describeLimitsResponse.AccountMaxReadCapacityUnits & "<br/>") 
  writeOutput("Account Max Write Capacity Units: " & describeLimitsResponse.AccountMaxWriteCapacityUnits & "<br/>") 
  writeOutput("Table Max Read Capacity Units: " & describeLimitsResponse.TableMaxReadCapacityUnits & "<br/>") 
  writeOutput("Table Max Write Capacity Units: " & describeLimitsResponse.TableMaxWriteCapacityUnits & "<br/>") 
</cfscript>

Output

Figure: DescribeLimits output
DescribeLimits output

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