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What happens if an Elastic IP (EIP1) is already associated to an instance and then a second Elastic IP (EIP2) associated to the instance?

April 26, 2017associated elastic happens instance IP

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What happens if an Elastic IP (EIP1) is already associated to an instance and then a second Elastic IP (EIP2) associated to the instance?

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The last ec2-associate-address call made will be the one applied to the instance; in this case EIP2 will be associated with the instance once the mapping propagates. EIP1 will be disassociated, but will remain associated with your EC2 account.