diff --git a/cluster-autoscaler/core/static_autoscaler.go b/cluster-autoscaler/core/static_autoscaler.go
index cb5a8c7464a6..fc564783be6f 100644
--- a/cluster-autoscaler/core/static_autoscaler.go
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/core/static_autoscaler.go
@@ -337,7 +337,10 @@ func (a *StaticAutoscaler) RunOnce(currentTime time.Time) errors.AutoscalerError
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	a.deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors()
+	if a.deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors() {
+		klog.V(0).Infof("Some nodes that failed to create were removed, skipping iteration")
+		return nil
+	}
 
 	// Check if there has been a constant difference between the number of nodes in k8s and
 	// the number of nodes on the cloud provider side.
@@ -624,7 +627,7 @@ func removeOldUnregisteredNodes(unregisteredNodes []clusterstate.UnregisteredNod
 	return removedAny, nil
 }
 
-func (a *StaticAutoscaler) deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors() {
+func (a *StaticAutoscaler) deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors() bool {
 	// We always schedule deleting of incoming errornous nodes
 	// TODO[lukaszos] Consider adding logic to not retry delete every loop iteration
 	nodes := a.clusterStateRegistry.GetCreatedNodesWithErrors()
@@ -645,6 +648,8 @@ func (a *StaticAutoscaler) deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors() {
 		nodesToBeDeletedByNodeGroupId[nodeGroup.Id()] = append(nodesToBeDeletedByNodeGroupId[nodeGroup.Id()], node)
 	}
 
+	deletedAny := false
+
 	for nodeGroupId, nodesToBeDeleted := range nodesToBeDeletedByNodeGroupId {
 		var err error
 		klog.V(1).Infof("Deleting %v from %v node group because of create errors", len(nodesToBeDeleted), nodeGroupId)
@@ -660,8 +665,11 @@ func (a *StaticAutoscaler) deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors() {
 			klog.Warningf("Error while trying to delete nodes from %v: %v", nodeGroupId, err)
 		}
 
+		deletedAny = deletedAny || err == nil
 		a.clusterStateRegistry.InvalidateNodeInstancesCacheEntry(nodeGroup)
 	}
+
+	return deletedAny
 }
 
 func (a *StaticAutoscaler) nodeGroupsById() map[string]cloudprovider.NodeGroup {
diff --git a/cluster-autoscaler/core/static_autoscaler_test.go b/cluster-autoscaler/core/static_autoscaler_test.go
index 50aaa1817612..93dd8a4903cf 100644
--- a/cluster-autoscaler/core/static_autoscaler_test.go
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/core/static_autoscaler_test.go
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ func TestStaticAutoscalerInstaceCreationErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	clusterState.UpdateNodes([]*apiv1.Node{}, nil, now)
 
 	// delete nodes with create errors
-	autoscaler.deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors()
+	assert.True(t, autoscaler.deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors())
 
 	// check delete was called on correct nodes
 	nodeGroupA.AssertCalled(t, "DeleteNodes", mock.MatchedBy(
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ func TestStaticAutoscalerInstaceCreationErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	clusterState.UpdateNodes([]*apiv1.Node{}, nil, now)
 
 	// delete nodes with create errors
-	autoscaler.deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors()
+	assert.True(t, autoscaler.deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors())
 
 	// nodes should be deleted again
 	nodeGroupA.AssertCalled(t, "DeleteNodes", mock.MatchedBy(
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ func TestStaticAutoscalerInstaceCreationErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	clusterState.UpdateNodes([]*apiv1.Node{}, nil, now)
 
 	// delete nodes with create errors
-	autoscaler.deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors()
+	assert.False(t, autoscaler.deleteCreatedNodesWithErrors())
 
 	// we expect no more Delete Nodes
 	nodeGroupA.AssertNumberOfCalls(t, "DeleteNodes", 2)