Deleting your Elastic Load Balancer

Once your load balancer becomes available, AWS will bill you for each hour (or partial hour) that you keep the load balancer running. So, if you’ve decided that you no longer need the load balancer, you should delete it.

To delete your load balancer:

• Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

• In the “Navigation” pane, click “US East (Virginia)”, under “Regions”.
• Select the check box next to the load balancer you want to delete under “Load Balancers”, and click “Delete”.
• Click on the “Yes, Delete” button once the confirmation message appears.

Elastic Load Balancing will then delete the load balancer. You stop incurring charges for a load balancer as soon as it is deleted.

Caution: Even after deleting a load balancer, the Amazon EC2 instances associated it continue to run, and so you will continue to incur charges.