Is the Public IP permenant on AWS/EW2 using TurnKey Hub?

This is sort of the same answer to your other thread, but from a different angle...

Firstly, the public IP is not static and may change. So I have 2 suggestions:

1. Buy an elastic IP from Amazon, which is something of a static IP (but it is reassignable to different instances...). If you go this way then you'll need to configure your domain host to point your domain at your elastic IP (which is then assigned to the relevant instance).

2. Or add your domain name to the Hub and handle it through Hub DNS. Have a read here.

Someone else has recently lodged it, with a workaround! :) I also noted that you are having the same issue.

Thanks Jeremy, so if I understand you correctly I need to get an Elastic IP address if I want a static IP assigned that doesn't change?

This is the option I would want since we easily control the DNS for that domain.

I figured it was an Elastic IP, but on the TKL Hub Dashboard with our launched server, I already created an Elastic IP (actually several because it wasn't working correctly) for the region my server is in (Oregon - West USA).  However when I click on "Associate existing" it gives the error:

Error associating Elastic IP '54.213.30.160' (The instance 'i-2b29c41f' belongs to a VPC.)

I have tried other Elastic IP's that I created, but I get the same error.

Therefore, how can I assign one of the created Elastic IP's to my launched server without getting that error?

Thanks!

Michel

But at least there is a workaround currently. Now that TKLDev is out I suspect that they may fix a few little bugs before they start work on the v13 appliance release...

Forgot to update on this one.

Yeah, manually adding the Elastic IP to the instance and it worked great. 

So there is something broken between TKL Hub and AWS EC2.

I prefer to manage everything for our EC2 instance from the TKL Hub, so I hope that is resolved soon.

Thanks!

Michel

You should get Amazon to configure reverse dns and no mail sending restrictions if you are sending email. 

Allot of spam filters will stop your emails cold if you don't. 

I am on a phone so can't easily find the address but just google 'aws reverse dns form'  and take it from there. 

BUt where exactly it ranks I'm not sure... I don't think the workaround is too involved (although obviously having it all available from the Hub is preferable).