# Elastic IP for EC2 instances

**Project:** Panel | **Board:** Closed | **Votes:** 1
**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/3-panel-requests/items/266-elastic-ip-for-ec2-instances

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All EC2 instances should have an elastic IP associated. This ensures that the public IP stays the same over its life. A free elastic IP is included with any instance because this is best practice. If Ploi could add a checkbox to create a new elastic IP and associate it with the new EC2 instance, that would be epic. It can't be done later manually because that would change the public IP.

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## Comments

**Dennis** (2022-09-23T06:43:35+00:00):
Could you provide any documentation on how to handle this API sided?