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AWS Elastic IP Pricing: A tricky affair

Posted on by Vinu Joseph

Elastic IP Pricing is tricky 🙂 Contrary to their pay-as-you-go model, AWS Elastic IP charges are a pay-as-you-don’t-use model.

As observed on AWS documentation, when either of these conditions are met, then Elastic IP Addresses are NOT CHARGED :-

  • The Elastic IP address is associated with an EC2 instance.
  • The instance associated with the Elastic IP address is running.
  • The instance has only one Elastic IP address attached to it.
  • The Elastic IP address is associated with an attached network interface, such as a Network Load Balancer or NAT gateway.

To summarise, basically this means Elastic IPs are only charged if they are idle or not attached to any AWS resource. So just ensure that every Elastic IP you provision is being actively used 🙂

Problem Solved!

Signing Out,
VJ


This article was previously published on Medium.