An Elastic IP address is a reserved public IP address that you can assign to any EC2 instance in a particular region until you choose to release it.
- Go to EC2 management console using the below URL. https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-east-1
- Select Elastic IPs link from EC2 Dashboard.
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3. Select Allocate New Address.
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4. Select your desired region (our resources are located in us-east-1) and click on Allocate
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5. A new elastic IP address is now ready to assign. Select it and go to Actions and chose Associate Elastic IP Address
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6. Chose resource type as Instance, enter your instance name in and click on Allocate.
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Now select the IP address and go to tags tab in the bottom to assign a proper name to identify which instance has this elastic IP address.
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Now, we will be able to RDP the instance using the assigned elastic IP from anywhere in the world.