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To delete an Amazon ECS service, complete the following steps:

**Note:** These steps apply to the new Amazon ECS console.

1. Open the [Amazon ECS console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/v2).
2. In the navigation pane, choose **Clusters**.
3. On the **Clusters** page, select the cluster for the service.
4. On the cluster detail page, choose the **Services** tab.
5. Select the service, and then choose **Delete**.
6. When prompted, enter **delete me**. Then, choose **Delete**.  
    **Note:** Before you can delete the service, you must scale it down to zero. Or, choose the **Force delete service** option.

**Important:** Elastic Load Balancing or service discovery resources that are associated with the service aren't affected by the service deletion. To delete your Elastic Load Balancing resources, see [Delete an Application Load Balancer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-delete.html) or [Delete a Network Load Balancer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/load-balancer-delete.html).

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[Why is the Amazon ECS container instance that I terminated still registered with its cluster?](https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/deregister-ecs-instance)

The service does not automatically scale to 0.  It is necessary to select the "Force" checkbox (which states that selecting it will scale the service to 0).  It is not clear why the checkbox exists because it is impossible to delete the service unless that box is checked.

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