[ aws . ec2 ]

associate-address

Description

Associates an Elastic IP address with an instance or a network interface. Before you can use an Elastic IP address, you must allocate it to your account.

An Elastic IP address is for use in either the EC2-Classic platform or in a VPC. For more information, see Elastic IP Addresses in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

[EC2-Classic, VPC in an EC2-VPC-only account] If the Elastic IP address is already associated with a different instance, it is disassociated from that instance and associated with the specified instance. If you associate an Elastic IP address with an instance that has an existing Elastic IP address, the existing address is disassociated from the instance, but remains allocated to your account.

[VPC in an EC2-Classic account] If you don’t specify a private IP address, the Elastic IP address is associated with the primary IP address. If the Elastic IP address is already associated with a different instance or a network interface, you get an error unless you allow reassociation. You cannot associate an Elastic IP address with an instance or network interface that has an existing Elastic IP address.

You cannot associate an Elastic IP address with an interface in a different network border group.

Warning

This is an idempotent operation. If you perform the operation more than once, Amazon EC2 doesn’t return an error, and you may be charged for each time the Elastic IP address is remapped to the same instance. For more information, see the Elastic IP Addresses section of Amazon EC2 Pricing .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  associate-address
[--allocation-id <value>]
[--instance-id <value>]
[--public-ip <value>]
[--allow-reassociation | --no-allow-reassociation]
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
[--network-interface-id <value>]
[--private-ip-address <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options

--allocation-id (string)

[EC2-VPC] The allocation ID. This is required for EC2-VPC.

--instance-id (string)

The ID of the instance. This is required for EC2-Classic. For EC2-VPC, you can specify either the instance ID or the network interface ID, but not both. The operation fails if you specify an instance ID unless exactly one network interface is attached.

--public-ip (string)

The Elastic IP address to associate with the instance. This is required for EC2-Classic.

--allow-reassociation | --no-allow-reassociation (boolean)

[EC2-VPC] For a VPC in an EC2-Classic account, specify true to allow an Elastic IP address that is already associated with an instance or network interface to be reassociated with the specified instance or network interface. Otherwise, the operation fails. In a VPC in an EC2-VPC-only account, reassociation is automatic, therefore you can specify false to ensure the operation fails if the Elastic IP address is already associated with another resource.

--dry-run | --no-dry-run (boolean)

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .

--network-interface-id (string)

[EC2-VPC] The ID of the network interface. If the instance has more than one network interface, you must specify a network interface ID.

For EC2-VPC, you can specify either the instance ID or the network interface ID, but not both.

--private-ip-address (string)

[EC2-VPC] The primary or secondary private IP address to associate with the Elastic IP address. If no private IP address is specified, the Elastic IP address is associated with the primary private IP address.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To associate an Elastic IP addresses in EC2-Classic

This example associates an Elastic IP address with an instance in EC2-Classic. If the command succeeds, no output is returned.

Command:

aws ec2 associate-address --instance-id i-07ffe74c7330ebf53 --public-ip 198.51.100.0

To associate an Elastic IP address in EC2-VPC

This example associates an Elastic IP address with an instance in a VPC.

Command:

aws ec2 associate-address --instance-id i-0b263919b6498b123 --allocation-id eipalloc-64d5890a

Output:

{
    "AssociationId": "eipassoc-2bebb745"
}

This example associates an Elastic IP address with a network interface.

Command:

aws ec2 associate-address --allocation-id eipalloc-64d5890a --network-interface-id eni-1a2b3c4d

This example associates an Elastic IP with a private IP address that’s associated with a network interface.

Command:

aws ec2 associate-address --allocation-id eipalloc-64d5890a --network-interface-id eni-1a2b3c4d --private-ip-address 10.0.0.85

Output

AssociationId -> (string)

[EC2-VPC] The ID that represents the association of the Elastic IP address with an instance.