---
title: "Ensure the ELB Service Role exists"
date: 2018-09-18T17:40:09-05:00
weight: 29
---

In AWS accounts that have never created a load balancer before, it's possible
that the service role for ELB might not exist yet.

We can check for the role, and create it if it's missing.

Copy/Paste the following commands into your Cloud9 workspace:

```
aws iam get-role --role-name "AWSServiceRoleForElasticLoadBalancing" || aws iam create-service-linked-role --aws-service-name "elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com"
```