Delete a listener rule 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: December 30, 2025.

Delete a listener rule for your Application Load Balancer

You can delete the nondefault rules for a listener at any time. You can't delete the default rule for a listener. When you delete a listener, all its rules are deleted.

Console
To delete a rule

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

  2. On the navigation pane, choose Load Balancers.

  3. Select the load balancer.

  4. On the Listeners and rules tab, select the text in the Protocol:Port column to open the detail page for the listener.

  5. Select the rule.

  6. Choose Actions, Delete rule.

  7. When prompted for confirmation, enter confirm and then choose Delete.

AWS CLI
To delete a rule

Use the delete-rule command.

aws elbv2 delete-rule \
    --rule-arn listener-rule-arn