Delete an Application Load Balancer target group - 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 an Application Load Balancer target group

You can delete a target group if it is not referenced by the forward actions of any listener rules. Deleting a target group does not affect the targets registered with the target group. If you no longer need a registered EC2 instance, you can stop or terminate it.

Console
To delete a target group

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

  2. In the navigation pane, under Load Balancing, choose Target Groups.

  3. Select the target group and choose Actions, Delete.

  4. Choose Delete.

AWS CLI
To delete a target group

Use the delete-target-group command.

aws elbv2 delete-target-group \
    --target-group-arn target-group-arn