Name

ec2-allocate-address

Synopsis

ec2-allocate-address

Allocates a new Amazon elastic IP address and prints out the allocated address. This newly allocated address then becomes available only to you, to assign to instances as you wish. Amazon charges for the nonuse of elastic IP addresses as well as excessive reassignment of addresses.

Example

$ ec2-allocate-address
ADDRESS 67.202.55.255

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