Releases an elastic IP address associated with your account.

If you run this operation on an elastic IP address that is already released, the address might be assigned to another account which will cause Amazon EC2 to return an error.

	Note
	Releasing an IP address automatically disassociates it from any instance with which it is associated. For more information, see ec2-disassociate-address.

	Important
	After releasing an elastic IP address, it is released to the IP address pool and might no longer be available to your account. Make sure to update your DNS records and any servers or devices that communicate with the address.

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

This example releases an elastic IP address associated with the account.

$ ec2-release-address 67.202.55.255
ADDRESS 67.202.55.255