# DeleteLoadBalancer


Deletes the specified Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, or Gateway Load Balancer. Deleting a load balancer also deletes its listeners.

You can't delete a load balancer if deletion protection is enabled. If the load balancer does not exist or has already been deleted, the call succeeds.

Deleting a load balancer does not affect its registered targets. For example, your EC2 instances continue to run and are still registered to their target groups. If you no longer need these EC2 instances, you can stop or terminate them.

## Request Parameters


 For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 ** LoadBalancerArn **   
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the load balancer.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

## Errors


For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** LoadBalancerNotFound **   
The specified load balancer does not exist.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** OperationNotPermitted **   
This operation is not allowed.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** ResourceInUse **   
A specified resource is in use.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

## Examples


### Delete a load balancer


This example deletes the specified load balancer.

#### Sample Request


```
https://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteLoadBalancer
&LoadBalancerArn=arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:us-west-2:123456789012:loadbalancer/app/my-load-balancer/50dc6c495c0c9188
&Version=2015-12-01
&AUTHPARAMS
```

## See Also


For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/elasticloadbalancingv2-2015-12-01/DeleteLoadBalancer)