Example 1: To allocate an Elastic IP address from Amazon's address pool

The following allocate-address example allocates an Elastic IP address. Amazon EC2 selects the address from Amazon's address pool.

aws ec2 allocate-address

Output:

{
    "PublicIp": "70.224.234.241",
    "AllocationId": "eipalloc-01435ba59eEXAMPLE",
    "PublicIpv4Pool": "amazon",
    "NetworkBorderGroup": "us-west-2",
    "Domain": "vpc"
}

For more information, see Elastic IP addresses in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Example 2: To allocate an Elastic IP address and associate it with a network border group

The following allocate-address example allocates an Elastic IP address and associates it with the specified network border group.

aws ec2 allocate-address \
    --network-border-group us-west-2-lax-1

Output:

{
    "PublicIp": "70.224.234.241",
    "AllocationId": "eipalloc-e03dd489ceEXAMPLE",
    "PublicIpv4Pool": "amazon",
    "NetworkBorderGroup": "us-west-2-lax-1",
    "Domain": "vpc"
}

For more information, see Elastic IP addresses in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Example 3: To allocate an Elastic IP address from an address pool that you own

The following allocate-address example allocates an Elastic IP address from an address pool that you have brought to your Amazon Web Services account. Amazon EC2 selects the address from the address pool.

aws ec2 allocate-address \
    --public-ipv4-pool ipv4pool-ec2-1234567890abcdef0

Output:

{
    "AllocationId": "eipalloc-02463d08ceEXAMPLE",
    "NetworkBorderGroup": "us-west-2",
    "CustomerOwnedIp": "18.218.95.81",
    "CustomerOwnedIpv4Pool": "ipv4pool-ec2-1234567890abcdef0",
    "Domain": "vpc"
    "NetworkBorderGroup": "us-west-2",
}

For more information, see Elastic IP addresses in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.