How To Add and Associate a New AWS Elastic IP (EIP) Address Via the Command Line (CLI)

Author: erics, February 11th, 2025

How To Add and Associate a New AWS Elastic IP (EIP) Address Via the Command Line (CLI):

shell% aws ec2 allocate-address --domain vpc                                               
eipalloc-9c09b9effc6b96a98      vpc     us-east-1       34.99.141.8  amazon

shell% aws ec2 associate-address --allocation-id eipalloc-9c09b9effc6b96a98 --instance-id i-024f1deafa1e2d453 
eipassoc-0216d3f7231147aed

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shell% aws ec2 allocate-address --domain vpc

eipalloc-9c09b9effc6b96a98 vpc us-east-1 34.99.141.8 amazon

shell% aws ec2 associate-address --allocation-id eipalloc-9c09b9effc6b96a98 --instance-id i-024f1deafa1e2d453

eipassoc-0216d3f7231147aed

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Address, Allocate, allocate-address, Associate, associate-address, AWS, cli, Command line, EC2, eip, Elastic, Elastic IP, howto, Instance, Instance ID, Network, tips, VPC | No comments

How To Find the AWS Region and Availability Zone Via the CLI

Author: erics, June 30th, 2015

/opt/aws/bin/ec2-metadata | grep placement

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Amazon, Availability Zone, AWS, AZ, cli, ec2-metadata, howto, ID, Instance, Instance ID, meta, metadata, Placement, Region, tips, Zone | No comments

How To Find The Instance ID In AWS EC2

Author: erics, January 8th, 2011

UPDATE: # yum install ec2-utils # rpm -ql ec2-utils /etc/udev/rules.d/51-ec2-hvm-devices.rules /opt/aws/bin/ec2-metadata /sbin/ec2udev # ec2-metadata -i | awk ‘{print $2}’ Just wrote a script for BudgetTravel.com and needed to determine the Instance ID. Here is how: $ wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2metadata/ec2-metadata $ chmod u+x ec2-metadata $ ./ec2-metadata -i # ec2-metadata -i | awk ‘{print $2}’ > /etc/instanceid Link […]

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: AWS, EC2, ec2-metadata, Instance ID, instanceid, metadata | No comments

How To Add and Associate a New AWS Elastic IP (EIP) Address Via the Command Line (CLI)

How To Find the AWS Region and Availability Zone Via the CLI

How To Find The Instance ID In AWS EC2

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