diff --git a/troposphere/autoscaling.py b/troposphere/autoscaling.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/troposphere/autoscaling.py
+++ b/troposphere/autoscaling.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class AutoScalingGroup(AWSObject):
         'MaxSize': (basestring, True),
         'MinSize': (basestring, True),
         'NotificationConfiguration': (basestring, False),
-        'Tags': (list, True),
+        'Tags': (list, False),  # Although docs say these are required
         'VPCZoneIdentifier': (list, False),
     }
Don't make Tags a required AutoScalingGroup property

Despite the documentation saying this is required, none of the examples
have Tags in them. So we'll make this an optional property for now..