Elastic Beanstalk without Elastic Load Balancer

Question

I would like to switch off Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for my Elastic Beanstalk environment.

Currently I don't need it and I don't want to pay for it.

It is possible to delete the ELB in EC2 management window but then Elastic Beanstalk health state is switched from GREEN to RED. I just found out that it's not possible.

Does someone has a trick how to run Elastic Beanstalk without load balancing and have environment GREEN health state?

Answer 1

Since 2013, AWS has enabled Elastic Beanstalk to support single instance environments where a single container instance can run without a load balancer. In the Elastic Beanstalk dashboard, you can simply switch the environment from "load balancing environment to "single instance" and vice versa.