Release an IP Address

Use euca-disassociate-address and euca-release-address to disassociate an IP address from an instance and to release the IP address to the global pool, respectively.

To release an IP address:

  1. Enter the following command to disassociate an IP address from an instance:
    euca-disassociate-address <IP_address>
  2. Enter the following command to release an IP address:
    euca-disassociate-address <IP_address>

The following example releases the IP address, 192.168.17.103

euca-release-address 192.168.17.103