AllocateAddress

Description

Acquires an elastic IP address for use with your account. For more information about elastic IP addresses, go to Instance Addressing in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Request Parameters

The AllocateAddress operation does not have any request parameters.

Response Elements

The elements in the following table come wrapped in an AllocateAddressResponse structure.

Name Description

Name	Description
`requestId`	The ID of the request. Type: xsd:string
`publicIp`	IP address for use with your account. Type: xsd:string

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

publicIp

IP address for use with your account.

Type: xsd:string

Examples

Example Request

This example returns an elastic IP address for use with the account.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=AllocateAddress&AuthParams

Example Response

<AllocateAddressResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-08-31/">
  <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
  <publicIp>67.202.55.255</publicIp>
</AllocateAddressResponse>

DescribeAddresses
ReleaseAddress
AssociateAddress
DisassociateAddress