Comments on: Ack! An EC2 Instance has Died! http://www.cultofgary.com/2009/01/02/ack-an-ec2-instance-has-died/ A System Administrator's Blog Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:35:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: gary.richardson http://www.cultofgary.com/2009/01/02/ack-an-ec2-instance-has-died/comment-page-1/#comment-89 gary.richardson Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:31:36 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/?p=136#comment-89 By default, IP addresses for EC2's aren't static. Amazon added elastic IP's to allow you to keep an IP when an instance goes down. You can then assign it to another instance. See http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-05-05/DeveloperGuide/index.html?elastic-addressing.html By default, IP addresses for EC2’s aren’t static. Amazon added elastic IP’s to allow you to keep an IP when an instance goes down. You can then assign it to another instance.

See http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-05-05/DeveloperGuide/index.html?elastic-addressing.html

]]> By: NM http://www.cultofgary.com/2009/01/02/ack-an-ec2-instance-has-died/comment-page-1/#comment-88 NM Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:51:07 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/?p=136#comment-88 What is an "elastic IP"? What is an “elastic IP”?

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