Cloud Computing Info

Cloud Computing Info

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Elastic IPs

Elastic IPs are a very neat feature of EC2. An Elastic IP is a configurable IP address assigned to your account. Unlike the rest of the features in AWS, you pay for any elastic IPs that you have allocated but not used. Amazon doesn’t want customers hoarding, and thus wasting, this resource. If you set aside the IP and use it, it’s free. If you set it aside and just keep it hanging around unused, you’ll pay a small monthly fee.

These IP addresses are connected to your account so you can assign them to any instance you might be running.