{"id":181,"date":"2024-10-19T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanobserver.net\/?p=181"},"modified":"2024-10-19T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:50:05","slug":"elastic-ip-is-back-on-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/19\/elastic-ip-is-back-on-the-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Elastic IP is back on the menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Feb, 2024, AWS changed their policy on Elastic IPs. For those who don&#8217;t know, an Elastic IP is a static IP address that doesn&#8217;t change. You&#8217;ll get a static IP with every EC2 instance you run but it could change over time. An Elastic IP never changes so your Route 53\/DNS records never change.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in February, Elastic IP addresses will now incur a cost whether the instance is running or not (they used to not charge if you had the IP address but the instance was shut down).<\/p>\n<p>However, if you have a running instance, you&#8217;re charged the same fee regardless. So I got an elastic IP and attached it to this instance since my plan is to run the site full time regardless.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m debating on whether or not I should get a verified SSL cert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Feb, 2024, AWS changed their policy on Elastic IPs. For those who don&#8217;t know, an Elastic IP is a static IP address that doesn&#8217;t change. You&#8217;ll get a static IP with every EC2 instance you run but it could change over time. An Elastic IP never changes so your Route 53\/DNS records never change. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/19\/elastic-ip-is-back-on-the-menu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elastic IP is back on the menu&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws","category-system-administration","category-web-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}