diff --git a/internal/service/elbv2/load_balancer.go b/internal/service/elbv2/load_balancer.go
index d5cf371bd7b..849b31031a7 100644
--- a/internal/service/elbv2/load_balancer.go
+++ b/internal/service/elbv2/load_balancer.go
@@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ func resourceLoadBalancerRead(ctx context.Context, d *schema.ResourceData, meta
 	d.Set("enforce_security_group_inbound_rules_on_private_link_traffic", lb.EnforceSecurityGroupInboundRulesOnPrivateLinkTraffic)
 	d.Set("internal", aws.StringValue(lb.Scheme) == elbv2.LoadBalancerSchemeEnumInternal)
 	d.Set("ip_address_type", lb.IpAddressType)
-	d.Set("load_balancer_type", lb.Type)
+	lbType := aws.StringValue(lb.Type)
+	d.Set("load_balancer_type", lbType)
 	d.Set("name", lb.LoadBalancerName)
 	d.Set("name_prefix", create.NamePrefixFromName(aws.StringValue(lb.LoadBalancerName)))
 	d.Set("security_groups", aws.StringValueSlice(lb.SecurityGroups))
@@ -522,8 +523,10 @@ func resourceLoadBalancerRead(ctx context.Context, d *schema.ResourceData, meta
 		return sdkdiag.AppendErrorf(diags, "setting access_logs: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	if err := d.Set("connection_logs", []interface{}{flattenLoadBalancerConnectionLogsAttributes(attributes)}); err != nil {
-		return sdkdiag.AppendErrorf(diags, "setting connection_logs: %s", err)
+	if lbType == elbv2.LoadBalancerTypeEnumApplication {
+		if err := d.Set("connection_logs", []interface{}{flattenLoadBalancerConnectionLogsAttributes(attributes)}); err != nil {
+			return sdkdiag.AppendErrorf(diags, "setting connection_logs: %s", err)
+		}
 	}
 
 	loadBalancerAttributes.flatten(d, attributes)
diff --git a/internal/service/elbv2/load_balancer_test.go b/internal/service/elbv2/load_balancer_test.go
index 207fcc19e0b..8cab88eca2a 100644
--- a/internal/service/elbv2/load_balancer_test.go
+++ b/internal/service/elbv2/load_balancer_test.go
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ func TestAccELBV2LoadBalancer_NLB_basic(t *testing.T) {
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "access_logs.#", "1"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "access_logs.0.enabled", "false"),
 					acctest.MatchResourceAttrRegionalARN(resourceName, "arn", "elasticloadbalancing", regexache.MustCompile(fmt.Sprintf("loadbalancer/net/%s/.+", rName))),
-					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "connection_logs.#", "0"),
+					resource.TestCheckNoResourceAttr(resourceName, "connection_logs.#"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttrSet(resourceName, "dns_name"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "dns_record_client_routing_policy", "any_availability_zone"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "enable_deletion_protection", "false"),