I am getting billed for AWS Elastic IPs

Question

EC2 pricing page says that Elastic IP addresses are free and I got the bill and I am being charged for Elastic IP Addresses.

Possible duplicate of [AWS EC2 Elastic IPs bandwidth usage and charges](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10051533/aws-ec2-elastic-ips-bandwidth-usage-and-charges) — Vaibhav Mehrotra, Jun 27 '18 at 05:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '18 at 05:53

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Do you have the Elastic IP address is associated with an EC2 instance ?
if yes, is the instance associated with the Elastic IP address is running.
if yes, do the associated instance has only one Elastic IP address attached to it.

If any of the above is false you would be charged for it. The # of IP address is finite and this is a kind of fair use policy.

answered Jun 27 '18 at 05:53

Taran Singh

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I had Elastic IP associated with more than 1 instance, so point 3 is false for me. Thanks I got the reason I was looking for. – Mark Johnson Jun 27 '18 at 05:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 05:30

If Your Elastic IP is unassigned you will be charged.

Please Make sure that;

An Elastic IP address doesn’t incur charges as long as the following conditions are true:

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.

This is from AWS Pricing Documentation

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 05:48

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. To allocate an Elastic IP address to your account in a particular region

AWS Charges you for every EIP you have which is not used (=not associated to any resource)

To release (=delete) an Elastic IP, follow these steps:

Go to the EC2 console
Under the Network & Security tab, choose Elastic IPs
Select the IP address you wish to remove
Click on actions and choose Release Address.

If the option Release Address is greyed out, it means that the IP address you've selected is still associated with a resource. Then you'll need to click on Disassociate Address first.

I am getting billed for AWS Elastic IPs

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