Explained: BYOIP (Bring Your Own IP)

You already own your IP addresses. Here's why that matters in the cloud. You run a company with servers in three places: your own data center, a colocated facility, and now AWS. Your servers have used the same block of public IP addresses for years. Clients, partners, firewall allowlists, and DNS records all point at those IPs. Then you launch an EC2 instance and AWS hands you a fresh IP from its own pool. Fine for most workloads. But what if … Read More