Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

AllocateAddress

Allocates an Elastic IP address to your Amazon Web Services account. After you allocate the Elastic IP address you can associate it with an instance or network interface. After you release an Elastic IP address, it is released to the IP address pool and can be allocated to a different Amazon Web Services account.

You can allocate an Elastic IP address from an address pool owned by Amazon or from an address pool created from a public IPv4 address range that you have brought to Amazon for use with your Amazon resources using bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP). For more information, see Bring Your Own IP Addresses (BYOIP) in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

[EC2-VPC] If you release an Elastic IP address, you might be able to recover it. You cannot recover an Elastic IP address that you released after it is allocated to another Amazon Web Services account. You cannot recover an Elastic IP address for EC2-Classic. To attempt to recover an Elastic IP address that you released, specify it in this operation.

An Elastic IP address is for use either in the EC2-Classic platform or in a VPC. By default, you can allocate 5 Elastic IP addresses for EC2-Classic per Region and 5 Elastic IP addresses for EC2-VPC per Region.

For more information, see Elastic IP Addresses in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

You can allocate a carrier IP address which is a public IP address from a telecommunication carrier, to a network interface which resides in a subnet in a Wavelength Zone (for example an EC2 instance).

Note

We are retiring EC2-Classic. We recommend that you migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC. For more information, see Migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

Address

[EC2-VPC] The Elastic IP address to recover or an IPv4 address from an address pool.

Type: String

Required: No

CustomerOwnedIpv4Pool

The ID of a customer-owned address pool. Use this parameter to let Amazon EC2 select an address from the address pool. Alternatively, specify a specific address from the address pool.

Type: String

Required: No

Domain

Indicates whether the Elastic IP address is for use with instances in a VPC or instances in EC2-Classic.

Default: If the Region supports EC2-Classic, the default is standard. Otherwise, the default is vpc.

Type: String

Valid Values: vpc | standard

Required: No

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

NetworkBorderGroup

A unique set of Availability Zones, Local Zones, or Wavelength Zones from which Amazon advertises IP addresses. Use this parameter to limit the IP address to this location. IP addresses cannot move between network border groups.

Use DescribeAvailabilityZones to view the network border groups.

You cannot use a network border group with EC2 Classic. If you attempt this operation on EC2 Classic, you receive an InvalidParameterCombination error.

Type: String

Required: No

PublicIpv4Pool

The ID of an address pool that you own. Use this parameter to let Amazon EC2 select an address from the address pool. To specify a specific address from the address pool, use the Address parameter instead.

Type: String

Required: No

TagSpecification.N

The tags to assign to the Elastic IP address.

Type: Array of TagSpecification objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

allocationId

[EC2-VPC] The ID that Amazon assigns to represent the allocation of the Elastic IP address for use with instances in a VPC.

Type: String

carrierIp

The carrier IP address. This option is only available for network interfaces which reside in a subnet in a Wavelength Zone (for example an EC2 instance).

Type: String

customerOwnedIp

The customer-owned IP address.

Type: String

customerOwnedIpv4Pool

The ID of the customer-owned address pool.

Type: String

domain

Indicates whether the Elastic IP address is for use with instances in a VPC (vpc) or instances in EC2-Classic (standard).

Type: String

Valid Values: vpc | standard

networkBorderGroup

The set of Availability Zones, Local Zones, or Wavelength Zones from which Amazon advertises IP addresses.

Type: String

publicIp

The Elastic IP address.

Type: String

publicIpv4Pool

The ID of an address pool.

Type: String

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example for EC2-Classic

This example request allocates an Elastic IP address for use with instances in EC2-Classic.

Sample Request


https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=AllocateAddress
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response


<AllocateAddressResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
   <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
   <publicIp>192.0.2.1</publicIp>
   <domain>standard</domain>
</AllocateAddressResponse>

Example for EC2-VPC

This example request allocates an Elastic IP address for use with instances in a VPC.

Sample Request


https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=AllocateAddress
&Domain=vpc
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response


<AllocateAddressResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
   <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
   <publicIp>198.51.100.1</publicIp>
   <domain>vpc</domain>
   <allocationId>eipalloc-5723d13e</allocationId>
</AllocateAddressResponse>

Example for Recovery

This example request shows how to recover an Elastic IP address that you previously released.

Sample Request


https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=AllocateAddress
&Domain=vpc
&Address=203.0.113.3
&AUTHPARAMS