Release an Elastic IP address

If you no longer need an Elastic IP address, we recommend that you release it. The Elastic IP address to release must not be currently associated with an AWS resource.

Console

To release an Elastic IP address

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Elastic IPs.

3. Select the Elastic IP address to release and choose Actions, Release Elastic IP addresses.

4. Choose Release.

AWS CLI

To release an Elastic IP address

Use the release-address AWS CLI command.

aws ec2 release-address --allocation-id eipalloc-64d5890a

PowerShell

To release an Elastic IP address

Use the Remove-EC2Address AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell command.

Remove-EC2Address -AllocationId eipalloc-64d5890a

After you release your Elastic IP address, you might be able to recover. The following rules apply:

• You can't recover an Elastic IP address if it has been allocated to another AWS account, or if it will result in your exceeding your Elastic IP address limit.

• You can't recover tags associated with an Elastic IP address.

AWS CLI

To recover an Elastic IP address

Use the allocate-address AWS CLI command and specify the IP address using the --address parameter as follows.

aws ec2 allocate-address --domain vpc --address 203.0.113.3

PowerShell

To recover an Elastic IP address

Use the New-EC2Address AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell command and specify the IP address using the -Address parameter as follows.

New-EC2Address -Address 203.0.113.3 -Domain vpc -Region us-east-1