Modify IPAM tier - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
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Modify IPAM tier

IPAM offers two tiers: Free Tier and Advanced Tier. Switching to the Advanced Tier of Amazon VPC IP Address Manager provides more granular control over your IP address management. This can be beneficial as your network complexity grows, allowing you to better optimize and manage your IP address space. For more information about the features available in the Free Tier and the costs associated with the Advanced Tier, see the IPAM tab in the Amazon VPC pricing page.

Note

Before you can switch from the Advanced Tier to the Free Tier, you must:

  • Delete private scope pools.

  • Delete non-default private scopes.

  • Delete pools with locales different than the IPAM home Region.

  • Delete non-default resource discovery associations.

  • Delete pool allocations to accounts that are not the IPAM owner.

Amazon Management Console
To modify the IPAM tier

  1. Open the IPAM console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ipam/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose IPAMs.

  3. In the content pane, select your IPAM.

  4. Choose Actions > Edit.

    Note

    If you are in the Free Tier, you will see Your estimated IPAM total active IP count is....

    The total active IP count is the number of active IP addresses in your IPAM that you would be charged if you switched from the Free Tier to the Advanced Tier. An active IP address is defined as an IP address or a prefix associated with an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) that is attached to a resource such as an EC2 Instance.

    • This metric is only available to customers in the Free Tier.

    • You cannot view a breakdown of the active IP count by IP type (public/private) or class (IPv4/IPv6).

    • IPAM only counts IPs from ENIs owned by monitored accounts. The count may be inaccurate for shared subnets. IP addresses are excluded if the subnet owner or ENI owner is not covered by IPAM.

  5. Choose the IPAM tier you want to use for the IPAM.

  6. Choose Save changes.

Command line

The commands in this section link to the Amazon CLI Reference documentation. The documentation provides detailed descriptions of the options that you can use when you run the commands.

Use the following Amazon CLI commands to view and modify an IPAM tier:

  1. View current IPAMs: describe-ipams

  2. Modify the IPAM tier: modify-ipam

  3. View your updated IPAMs: describe-ipams