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ec2-allocate-address

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15

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ec2-allocate-address

Description

Acquires an elastic IP address for use with your account.

Syntax

ec2-allocate-address

Options

This command does not have any options.

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • Output type identifier ("ADDRESS")

  • Elastic IP address for use with your account

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example returns an elastic IP address for use with the account.

PROMPT> ec2-allocate-address
ADDRESS 67.202.55.255

ec2-describe-addresses

  • ec2-release-address

  • ec2-associate-address

  • ec2-disassociate-address

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