Deletion Protection (EC2, ELB, RDS)

• outline

Unexpected deletion or deletion from terraform destroy can be prevented by enabling deletion protection.

• EC2 termination protection

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/terminating-instances.html#Using_ChangingDisableAPITermination
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-lifecycle.html

• ELB Deletion protection

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/network-load-balancers.html#deletion-protection
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/application-load-balancers.html#deletion-protection

• RDS Deletion protection

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_DeleteInstance.html