amazon web services - 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 managment window but then Elastic Beanstalk health state is switched from GREEN to RED. I just found a information 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 July 2013 Elastic Beanstalk supports "single-instance" environments that have a single container instance running without a load balancer. Existing environments that are set up using "load balancing environment" can be switched to "single instance" and vice versa.

Prior to this it was not possible to remove the load balancer and have Elastic Beanstalk still work correctly. The load balancer is an integral part of the way that Elastic Beanstalk works in "load-balancing environment" configurations.