AWS CLI Command Reference

[ aws . ec2 ]

describe-addresses

Description

Describes the specified Elastic IP addresses or all of your Elastic IP addresses.

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 .

Note

We are retiring EC2-Classic on August 15, 2022. We recommend that you migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC. For more information, see Migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  describe-addresses
[--filters <value>]
[--public-ips <value>]
[--allocation-ids <value>]
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--filters (list)

One or more filters. Filter names and values are case-sensitive.

  • allocation-id - [EC2-VPC] The allocation ID for the address.

  • association-id - [EC2-VPC] The association ID for the address.

  • domain - Indicates whether the address is for use in EC2-Classic (standard ) or in a VPC (vpc ).

  • instance-id - The ID of the instance the address is associated with, if any.

  • network-border-group - A unique set of Availability Zones, Local Zones, or Wavelength Zones from where Amazon Web Services advertises IP addresses.

  • network-interface-id - [EC2-VPC] The ID of the network interface that the address is associated with, if any.

  • network-interface-owner-id - The Amazon Web Services account ID of the owner.

  • private-ip-address - [EC2-VPC] The private IP address associated with the Elastic IP address.

  • public-ip - The Elastic IP address, or the carrier IP address.

  • tag :<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA , specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.

  • tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.

(structure)

A filter name and value pair that is used to return a more specific list of results from a describe operation. Filters can be used to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as tags, attributes, or IDs.

If you specify multiple filters, the filters are joined with an AND , and the request returns only results that match all of the specified filters.

Name -> (string)

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Values -> (list)

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an OR , and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

Name=string,Values=string,string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Name": "string",
    "Values": ["string", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--public-ips (list)

One or more Elastic IP addresses.

Default: Describes all your Elastic IP addresses.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--allocation-ids (list)

[EC2-VPC] Information about the allocation IDs.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--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 .

--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. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

Example 1: To retrieve details about all of your Elastic IP addresses

The following describe addresses example displays details about your Elastic IP addresses.

aws ec2 describe-addresses

Output:

{
    "Addresses": [
        {
            "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
            "PublicIp": "198.51.100.0",
            "PublicIpv4Pool": "amazon",
            "Domain": "standard"
        },
        {
            "Domain": "vpc",
            "PublicIpv4Pool": "amazon",
            "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
            "NetworkInterfaceId": "eni-12345678",
            "AssociationId": "eipassoc-12345678",
            "NetworkInterfaceOwnerId": "123456789012",
            "PublicIp": "203.0.113.0",
            "AllocationId": "eipalloc-12345678",
            "PrivateIpAddress": "10.0.1.241"
        }
    ]
}

Example 2: To retrieve details your Elastic IP addresses for EC2-VPC

The following describe-addresses example displays details about your Elastic IP addresses for use with instances in a VPC.

aws ec2 describe-addresses \
    --filters "Name=domain,Values=vpc"

Output:

{
    "Addresses": [
        {
            "Domain": "vpc",
            "PublicIpv4Pool": "amazon",
            "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
            "NetworkInterfaceId": "eni-12345678",
            "AssociationId": "eipassoc-12345678",
            "NetworkInterfaceOwnerId": "123456789012",
            "PublicIp": "203.0.113.0",
            "AllocationId": "eipalloc-12345678",
            "PrivateIpAddress": "10.0.1.241"
        }
    ]
}

Example 3: To retrieve details about an Elastic IP address specified by allocation ID

The following describe-addresses example displays details about the Elastic IP address with the specified allocation ID, which is associated with an instance in EC2-VPC.

aws ec2 describe-addresses \
    --allocation-ids eipalloc-282d9641

Output:

{
    "Addresses": [
        {
            "Domain": "vpc",
            "PublicIpv4Pool": "amazon",
            "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
            "NetworkInterfaceId": "eni-1a2b3c4d",
            "AssociationId": "eipassoc-123abc12",
            "NetworkInterfaceOwnerId": "1234567891012",
            "PublicIp": "203.0.113.25",
            "AllocationId": "eipalloc-282d9641",
            "PrivateIpAddress": "10.251.50.12"
        }
    ]
}

Example 4: To retrieve details about an Elastic IP address specified by its VPC private IP address

The following describe-addresses example displays details about the Elastic IP address associated with a particular private IP address in EC2-VPC.

aws ec2 describe-addresses \
    --filters "Name=private-ip-address,Values=10.251.50.12"

Example 5: To retrieve details about Elastic IP addresses in EC2-Classic

TThe following describe-addresses example displays details about your Elastic IP addresses for use in EC2-Classic.

aws ec2 describe-addresses \
    --filters "Name=domain,Values=standard"

Output:

{
    "Addresses": [
        {
            "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
            "PublicIp": "203.0.110.25",
            "PublicIpv4Pool": "amazon",
            "Domain": "standard"
        }
    ]
}

Example 6: To retrieve details about an Elastic IP addresses specified by its public IP address

The following describe-addresses example displays details about the Elastic IP address with the value 203.0.110.25, which is associated with an instance in EC2-Classic.

aws ec2 describe-addresses \
    --public-ips 203.0.110.25

Output:

{
    "Addresses": [
        {
            "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
            "PublicIp": "203.0.110.25",
            "PublicIpv4Pool": "amazon",
            "Domain": "standard"
        }
    ]
}

Output

Addresses -> (list)

Information about the Elastic IP addresses.

(structure)

Describes an Elastic IP address, or a carrier IP address.

InstanceId -> (string)

The ID of the instance that the address is associated with (if any).

PublicIp -> (string)

The Elastic IP address.

AllocationId -> (string)

The ID representing the allocation of the address for use with EC2-VPC.

AssociationId -> (string)

The ID representing the association of the address with an instance in a VPC.

Domain -> (string)

Indicates whether this Elastic IP address is for use with instances in EC2-Classic (standard ) or instances in a VPC (vpc ).

NetworkInterfaceId -> (string)

The ID of the network interface.

NetworkInterfaceOwnerId -> (string)

The ID of the Amazon Web Services account that owns the network interface.

PrivateIpAddress -> (string)

The private IP address associated with the Elastic IP address.

Tags -> (list)

Any tags assigned to the Elastic IP address.

(structure)

Describes a tag.

Key -> (string)

The key of the tag.

Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws: .

Value -> (string)

The value of the tag.

Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 256 Unicode characters.

PublicIpv4Pool -> (string)

The ID of an address pool.

NetworkBorderGroup -> (string)

The name of the unique set of Availability Zones, Local Zones, or Wavelength Zones from which Amazon Web Services advertises IP addresses.

CustomerOwnedIp -> (string)

The customer-owned IP address.

CustomerOwnedIpv4Pool -> (string)

The ID of the customer-owned address pool.

CarrierIp -> (string)

The carrier IP address associated. This option is only available for network interfaces which reside in a subnet in a Wavelength Zone (for example an EC2 instance).

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