To accept an Elastic IP address transferred to your account

The following accept-address-transfer example accepts the transfer of the specified Elastic IP address to your account.

aws ec2 accept-address-transfer \
    --address 100.21.184.216

Output:

{
    "AddressTransfer": {
        "PublicIp": "100.21.184.216",
        "AllocationId": "eipalloc-09ad461b0d03f6aaf",
        "TransferAccountId": "123456789012",
        "TransferOfferExpirationTimestamp": "2023-02-22T20:51:10.000Z",
        "TransferOfferAcceptedTimestamp": "2023-02-22T22:52:54.000Z",
        "AddressTransferStatus": "accepted"
    }
}

For more information, see Transfer Elastic IP addresses in the Amazon VPC User Guide.