May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
8h 5m
English
When we use IPv4 networks and have created some resources in a VPC subnet, we will need to make them available on the internet. As we've already mentioned, we can attach an IGW to the subnet and make it public. Once we have spun up some instances in the subnet, we can either attach a public IP address or an Elastic IP address.
Public IPs are sourced from one or more AWS-controlled public IP address pools and are attached to the instance randomly whenever an instance is started. When an instance using a public IP address fails and is recreated or shut down and restarted, it will not maintain the same public IP address.
This is probably the biggest advantage of Elastic IPs. An Elastic IP address is associated ...
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