How to release an elastic ip to avoid unwanted billing in AWS

 This will provide you procedure for Disassociate public ip which is already assigned to EC2 instance and Release public IP which is associate to AWS account. To avoid unwanted billing with unwanted public ip.

Practical steps:

• From the Elastic ip page --> Right click on the Elastic IP --> Disassociate address.

• Then the below conformation screen will appears, conform it.                                                         

By the above steps, the fixed public ip which is assigned to one EC2 will be removed. As usually for every time when EC2 instance restarts new public ip will be assigned.

By the below releasing address process:                                                                                             

the public ip will be removed from AWS account to avoid unwanted billing, if the public ip is not longer use.

conform it in the conformation screen.                                                                                                          

you can see the public ip is now removed in the Elastic ip page.