What is an Elastic IP?

• Elastic or static IP is used if you want your Public IP to be consistent.
• Elastic IP will not be changed, in case the instance will be stopped/started or rebooted.

Steps for creating Elastic IP on Amazon EC2

• Under EC2 Dashboard, go to “Network and Security” and click on the “Elastic IPs” menu item.
• On this page, you will see a list of already created Elastic IPs.
• For creating a new one, click on the button “Allocate Elastic IP address”.
• You will see Elastic IP address settings, where IP will be allocated from amazon’s pool of IPv4 addresses.
• Once created, associate the newly created Elastic IP to your instance.

Steps for associating an IP address to the EC2 instance

• Choose the Elastic IP and select the “Actions” button.
• Under the Actions button, there is an option “Associate Elastic IP address” and select this option.
• On the next step, choose which instance you want to associate this IP with and click the “Associate” button.
• You will see a success alert “Elastic IP address associated with respective IP”

• Now if you go to that Instance detail, you will see newly Elastic IP will be displayed under “Elastic IPs” and “IPv4 Public IP” headings.
• If you start/stop or reboot this instance, the Elastic IP will remain the same.

Remove/delete Elastic IP

• Firstly, you need to Disaccociate the Elastic IP from the linked instance, by clicking on the “Disassociate Elastic IP address” under the “Actions” button.
• After that, click on “Release Elastic IP addresses” option