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Load balancer has deletion protection turned off

AWS_OPS_026 MEDIUM Reliability

What it checks

Load balancer has deletion protection turned off

Where it applies

Terraform: aws_lb, aws_alb

CloudFormation: AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer

How to fix it

  1. Set enable_deletion_protection = true. To actually delete, flip it false in a separate apply.

Frameworks

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