On reboot, the IP address of an amazon instance changes. How to find the new IP address using java API?
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On reboot, the IP address of an amazon instance changes. How to find the new IP address using java API?
Assuming you don’t want to assign an Elastic IP address (and there are reasons why this is not always a solution) then simply call
DescribeInstanceson the rebooted instance, which returns a bunch of information including Public IP Address.Here’s the AWS EC2 Java API Documentation on the topic.