Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancer: Does its IP ever Change?

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CoderChris picture CoderChris · Sep 29, 2010 · Viewed 49.2k times · Source

Does the ELB's IP Ever Change once setup, or will it always access instances from the same location during its lifetime no matter what might be going on with it behind the scenes at Amazon?

Answer

skimnetster picture skimnetster · Sep 30, 2010

ELB's IP address keeps changing. You should instead use the DNS name provided to you.

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=32280

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