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When I try and associate a second Elastic IP to a small EC2 instance, the currently assigned Elastic IP is disassociated.
Do I need to use a VPC?
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Classic EC2 instances can only have a single Elastic IP address associated with them. To get multiple IP addresses, you must use VPC and setup multiple network interfaces on your instance.
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