I'm trying to set up my Kubernetes services as being external by using type: LoadBalancer on AWS. After I created my service using kubectl I can see the change but no ELB is created, not even async. Any hints on what could cause this? The pod I'm trying to expose is running a Docker image which exposes a web-server on port 8001.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: my-service
  labels:
    name:  my-service
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
    # the port that this service should serve on
  - port: 8001
  selector:
    name:  my-service