AWS - HowTo create ElasitcIP Address & get allocation id

 

In this blog post, let us learn how to create ElasticIP Address and get an allocation id from there.

What is ElasticIP and why we need it:

Elastic IP Address is again an address to be associated with EC2 instance or network interface. It is static and hence we can remap this address to other instances in any VPC during failures

Pre-requisite:

• An active AWS account
• Permissions to AWS EC2 Management console, Network & Security Menu options

Steps:

• Navigate to the EC2 console in AWS, click on "Network & Security" menu by the left side of the console, click on "Elastic IPs"
• Now click on "Allocate Elastic IP address", select the options as applicable like network border group, IP pool like "Amazon Pool" or others, etc

• Now you have the Elastic IP allocated along with allocation id

Above screen shot gives the complete view of the newly created elastic IP & Allocation id. Now this can be associated for a dedicated host or EC2 instances