Cancel a zonal shift for your Application Load Balancer - ELB
This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: January 2, 2026.

Cancel a zonal shift for your Application Load Balancer

You can cancel a zonal shift any time before it expires. You can cancel zonal shifts that you initiate, or zonal shifts that AWS starts for a resource for a practice run for zonal autoshift.

Console

This procedure explains how to cancel a zonal shift using the Amazon EC2 console. For steps to cancel a zonal shift using the Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) console, see Canceling a zonal shift in the Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Developer Guide.

To cancel a zonal shift

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://eusc-de-east-1.console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/ec2/.

  2. On the navigation pane, under Load Balancing, choose Load Balancers.

  3. Select an Application Load Balancer with an active zonal shift.

  4. On the Integrations tab, under Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC), choose Cancel zonal shift.

    This opens the ARC console to continue the cancelation process.

  5. Choose Cancel zonal shift.

  6. When prompted for confirmation, choose Confirm.

AWS CLI
To cancel a zonal shift

Use the Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) cancel-zonal-shift command.

aws arc-zonal-shift cancel-zonal-shift \
    --zonal-shift-id 9ac9ec1e-1df1-0755-3dc5-8cf57EXAMPLE