# Update the Availability Zones for your Application Load Balancer
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You can enable or disable the Availability Zones for your load balancer at any time. After you enable an Availability Zone, the load balancer starts routing requests to the registered targets in that Availability Zone. Application Load Balancers have cross-zone load balancing on by default, resulting in requests being routed to all registered targets across all Availability Zones. When cross-zone load balancing is off, the load balancer only routes request to targets in the same Availability Zone. For more information, see [Cross-zone load balancing](application-load-balancers.md#cross-zone-load-balancing). Your load balancer is most effective if you ensure that each enabled Availability Zone has at least one registered target.

After you disable an Availability Zone, the targets in that Availability Zone remain registered with the load balancer, but the load balancer will not route requests to them.

For more information, see [Subnets for your load balancer](application-load-balancers.md#subnets-load-balancer).

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#### [ Console ]

**To update Availability Zones**

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/).

1. On the navigation pane, choose **Load Balancers**.

1. Select the load balancer.

1. On the **Network mapping** tab, choose **Edit subnets**.

1. To enable an Availability Zone, select its check box and select one subnet. If there is only one available subnet, it is selected for you.

1. To change the subnet for an enabled Availability Zone, choose one of the other subnets from the list.

1. To disable an Availability Zone, clear its check box.

1. Choose **Save changes**.

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#### [ AWS CLI ]

**To update Availability Zones**  
Use the [set-subnets](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/elbv2/set-subnets.html) command.

```
aws elbv2 set-subnets \
    --load-balancer-arn load-balancer-arn \
    --subnets subnet-8360a9e7EXAMPLE subnet-b7d581c0EXAMPLE
```

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#### [ CloudFormation ]

**To update Availability Zones**  
Update the [AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/TemplateReference/aws-resource-elasticloadbalancingv2-loadbalancer.html) resource.

```
Resources:
  myLoadBalancer:
    Type: 'AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer'
    Properties:
      Name: my-alb
      Type: application
      Scheme: internal
      IpAddressType: dualstack
      Subnets: 
        - !Ref subnet-AZ1
        - !Ref new-subnet-AZ2
      SecurityGroups: 
        - !Ref mySecurityGroup
```

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