devops

Recently I automated deletion of an Elastic Load Balancer and the Subnet it was in. Fairly straightforward stuff. One slight problem is that an ELB doesn't have states. When you delete one it disappears immediately. But in the background it is still there. When you try to delete the subnet it was in you get a dependency error. After a couple of minutes it does work.

The same is true if you try to delete a security group that the ELB was using.

What's going on?