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Configure automatic public IP addresses for WorkSpaces Personal - Amazon WorkSpaces

Configure automatic public IP addresses for WorkSpaces Personal

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After you enable automatic assignment of public IP addresses, each WorkSpace that you launch is assigned a public IP address from the Amazon-provided pool of public addresses. A WorkSpace in a public subnet can access the internet through the internet gateway if it has a public IP address. WorkSpaces that already exist before you enable automatic assignment do not receive public addresses until you rebuild them.

Note that you do not need to enable automatic assignment of public addresses if your WorkSpaces are in private subnets and you configured a NAT gateway for the virtual private cloud (VPC), or if your WorkSpaces are in public subnets and you assigned them Elastic IP addresses. For more information, see Configure a VPC for WorkSpaces Personal.

Warning

If you associate an Elastic IP address that you own to a WorkSpace, and then you later disassociate that Elastic IP address from the WorkSpace, the WorkSpace loses its public IP address, and it doesn't automatically get a new one from the Amazon-provided pool. To associate a new public IP address from the Amazon-provided pool with the WorkSpace, you must rebuild the WorkSpace. If you don't want to rebuild the WorkSpace, you must associate another Elastic IP address that you own to the WorkSpace.

To configure Elastic IP addresses

  1. Open the WorkSpaces console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Directories.

  3. Select the directory for your WorkSpaces.

  4. Choose Actions, Update Details.

  5. Expand Access to Internet and select Enable or Disable.

  6. Choose Update.

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