Ensure ELB has deletion protection enabled
Load balancers should have deletion protection to prevent accidental deletion.
Security Impact
Without deletion protection, load balancers can be accidentally deleted, causing service outages.
How to Remediate
Enable deletion protection: aws elbv2 modify-load-balancer-attributes --load-balancer-arn ARN --attributes Key=deletion_protection.enabled,Value=true
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-elb-5
- Service
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- Category
- Data Protection
- Severity
- MEDIUM
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