Your AWS account has at least one public IPv4 address

Question

Hello,

We received this email from Amazon about "You are receiving this notification because your AWS account has at least one public IPv4 address used in the last 30 days".

We do not use AWS much and we only have a single website that we are actively using on a EC2 instance. We also run some scripts all using on a PHP platform.

From my understanding if we make no changes are website will remain online and operational after the February 1st launch date. We will just be charged slightly more for IP4 service bridge but our website and service will still run as expected.

Can you please confirm if this is correct?

Thanks in advance.

Answer

Hello! Your interpretation is correct, the notification was sent so that you are aware that starting February 1st, 2024, AWS will start charging for public IP addresses. Per the pricing page [1] this means that for each public IP address that you have assigned, whenever it's on an AWS resource (such as EC2 instances) that is either running or stopped, you will be billed $0.005 per hour.

We were already charging you this fee for public IP addresses associated to stopped instances. The only change is that we are now charging the same amount if the instance is running.

You can read this blog post [2] for additional information. Let me know if you have any additional questions.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/pricing/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights/

Answer

Thank you, I appropriate your fast response.

Your AWS account has at least one public IPv4 address

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