AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 721

A user has launched an ELB which has 5 instances registered with it. The user deletes the ELB by mistake. What will happen to the instances?

Answer options

• A. ELB will ask the user whether to delete the instances or not
• B. Instances will be terminated
• C. ELB cannot be deleted if it has running instances registered with it
• D. Instances will keep running

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Deleting an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) only removes the load balancer itself and does not affect the EC2 instances registered with it. The instances will continue to run normally and must be terminated separately if they are no longer required. Therefore, deleting the ELB has no impact on the lifecycle of the underlying instances.