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Amazon EC2 Cookbook
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Amazon EC2 Cookbook

by Sekhar Reddy
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
194 pages
4h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Allocating Elastic IP addresses

Elastic IP (EIP) address is the static public IP address. You can attach and detach the EIP from EC2 instance at any time. Instances in EC2-Classic support only one private IP address and corresponding EIP. Instances in EC2-VPC support multiple private IP addresses, and each one can have a corresponding EIP. If you stop the instance in EC2-Classic the EIP is disassociated from instance, and you have to associate it again when you start the instance. But if you stop the instance in EC2-VPC, the EIP remains associated with the EC2 instance.

In this recipe, we list the commands for allocating an Elastic IP address in a VPC and associating it with the network interface.

How to do it…

For allocating EIP addresses, perform ...

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