Use MoveAddressToVpc with a CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Use MoveAddressToVpc with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use MoveAddressToVpc.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To move an address to EC2-VPC

This example moves Elastic IP address 54.123.4.56 to the EC2-VPC platform.

Command:

aws ec2 move-address-to-vpc --public-ip 54.123.4.56

Output:

{
  "Status": "MoveInProgress"
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example moves an EC2 instance with a public IP address of 12.345.67.89 to the EC2-VPC platform in the US East (Northern Virginia) region.

Move-EC2AddressToVpc -PublicIp 12.345.67.89 -Region us-east-1

Example 2: This example pipes the results of a Get-EC2Instance command to the Move-EC2AddressToVpc cmdlet. The Get-EC2Instance command gets an instance that is specified by instance ID, then returns the public IP address property of the instance.

(Get-EC2Instance -Instance i-12345678).Instances.PublicIpAddress | Move-EC2AddressToVpc

  • For API details, see MoveAddressToVpc in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

For a complete list of Amazon SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an Amazon SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.