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

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?

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CoderChris Avatar asked Sep 29 '10 11:09

CoderChris


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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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skimnetster Avatar answered Sep 27 '22 15:09

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