diff --git a/reference-artifacts/master-config-sample-snippets/sample_snippets.md b/reference-artifacts/master-config-sample-snippets/sample_snippets.md
index c5b526266..f5ef08d78 100644
--- a/reference-artifacts/master-config-sample-snippets/sample_snippets.md
+++ b/reference-artifacts/master-config-sample-snippets/sample_snippets.md
@@ -4,18 +4,6 @@
 
 ---
 
-- Added an option to exclude the alb deployment on a specific workload account
-
-```
-  "workload-account-configs": {
-    "fun-acct": {
-      "exclude-ou-albs": true
-    }
-  }
-```
-
----
-
 - Update Central Logging Kinesis stream shard count as accounts are added
 
 ```
@@ -194,14 +182,16 @@
     "fun-acct": {
       "account-name": "TheFunAccount",
       "email": "myemail+pbmmT-funacct@example.com---------------------REPLACE----------------------",
-      "ou": "Sandbox"
+      "ou": "Sandbox",
+      "exclude-ou-albs": true
     },
     "mydevacct1": {
       "account-name": "MyDev1",
       "email": "myemail+pbmmT-dev1@example.com---------------------REPLACE----------------------",
       "ou": "Dev",
       "share-mad-from": "operations",
-      "enable-s3-public-access": true
+      "enable-s3-public-access": true,
+      "keep-default-vpc-regions": []
     }
   }
 ```
diff --git a/src/core/runtime/src/delete-default-vpc/delete.ts b/src/core/runtime/src/delete-default-vpc/delete.ts
index fc914076c..3d9873809 100644
--- a/src/core/runtime/src/delete-default-vpc/delete.ts
+++ b/src/core/runtime/src/delete-default-vpc/delete.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import { EC2 } from '@aws-accelerator/common/src/aws/ec2';
 import { LoadConfigurationInput } from '../load-configuration-step';
-import { Account } from '@aws-accelerator/common-outputs/src/accounts';
 import { STS } from '@aws-accelerator/common/src/aws/sts';
 import { loadAcceleratorConfig } from '@aws-accelerator/common-config/src/load';
+import { Organizations } from '@aws-accelerator/common/src/aws/organizations';
+import { equalIgnoreCase } from '@aws-accelerator/common/src/util/common';
 
 interface DeleteVPCInput extends LoadConfigurationInput {
   accountId: string;
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ const CustomErrorMessage = [
 ];
 
 const sts = new STS();
+const organizations = new Organizations();
 export const handler = async (input: DeleteVPCInput): Promise<string[]> => {
   console.log(`Deleting Default VPC in account ...`);
   console.log(JSON.stringify(input, null, 2));
@@ -32,11 +34,25 @@ export const handler = async (input: DeleteVPCInput): Promise<string[]> => {
     filePath: configFilePath,
     commitId: configCommitId,
   });
+  const awsAccount = await organizations.getAccount(accountId);
+  if (!awsAccount) {
+    // This will never happen unless it is called explicitly with invalid AccountId
+    throw new Error(`Unable to retrieve account info from Organizations API for "${accountId}"`);
+  }
+  let excludeWorkloadRegions: string[] | undefined;
+  const accountConfig = acceleratorConfig
+    .getWorkloadAccountConfigs()
+    .find(([_, a]) => equalIgnoreCase(a.email, awsAccount.Email!));
+  if (accountConfig) {
+    excludeWorkloadRegions = accountConfig[1]['keep-default-vpc-regions'];
+  }
   const supportedRegions = acceleratorConfig['global-options']['supported-regions'];
   const excludeRegions = acceleratorConfig['global-options']['keep-default-vpc-regions'];
-  const regions = supportedRegions.filter(r => !excludeRegions.includes(r));
+  const regions = supportedRegions
+    .filter(r => !excludeRegions.includes(r))
+    .filter(w => !`${excludeWorkloadRegions || []}`.includes(w));
   console.log(`${accountId}: Excluding Deletion of  Default VPC for regions from account "${accountId}"...`);
-  console.log(`${accountId}: ${JSON.stringify(excludeRegions, null, 2)}`);
+  console.log(`${accountId}: ${JSON.stringify(excludeRegions.concat(`${excludeWorkloadRegions || []}`), null, 2)}`);
   const errors: string[] = [];
   const credentials = await sts.getCredentialsForAccountAndRole(accountId, assumeRoleName);
   for (const region of regions) {
diff --git a/src/lib/common-config/src/index.ts b/src/lib/common-config/src/index.ts
index b96c8d2e9..621dbff44 100644
--- a/src/lib/common-config/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/lib/common-config/src/index.ts
@@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ export const MandatoryAccountConfigType = t.interface({
   deleted: fromNullable(t.boolean, false),
   'src-filename': t.string,
   'exclude-ou-albs': optional(t.boolean),
+  'keep-default-vpc-regions': fromNullable(t.array(t.string), []),
 });
 
 export type MandatoryAccountConfig = t.TypeOf<typeof MandatoryAccountConfigType>;