Permanently STOP wpa_supplicant on Ubuntu 18.04

I just started an AWS Ubuntu 18.04 instance using their default image. I was surprised to see this process running:

$ ps auxww | grep wpa
root       792  0.0  0.2  45232  5380 ?        Ss   15:43   0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s -O /run/wpa_supplicant

I believe this is to do with WIFI... well obviously AWS does not have WIFI on their instances, so how do I stop this useless process from starting on reboot?


sudo systemctl stop wpa_supplicant 
sudo systemctl disable wpa_supplicant