Converting a static public IP address to dynamic

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Updated at August 6, 2026

You can convert a static public IP address assigned to a cloud resource to dynamic. If a VM uses a dynamic IP address, it gets lost when the VM is stopped and changes when it is started again.

Management console

CLI

API

In the management console, select the folder containing the address.
Navigate to Virtual Private Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select Public IP addresses.
Click in the row of the IP address and select Make dynamic.
In the window that opens, click Change.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

See the description of the CLI commands for updating the address attributes:
```
yc vpc address update --help
```

Get a list of addresses in the default folder:

yc vpc address list

Result:

+----------------------+------+---------------+----------+------+
|          ID          | NAME |    ADDRESS    | RESERVED | USED |
+----------------------+------+---------------+----------+------+
| e2l46k8conff******** |      | 84.201.177.41 | true     | true |
+----------------------+------+---------------+----------+------+

The true value of the reserved parameter for the IP address with the e2l46k8conff******** ID shows that this address is static.

Convert it to dynamic by using the --reserved=false parameter and the address ID:

yc vpc address update --reserved=false e2l46k8conff********

Result:

id: e2l46k8conff********
folder_id: b1g7gvsi89m3********
created_at: "2021-01-14T09:36:46Z"
external_ipv4_address:
  address: 84.201.177.41
  zone_id: ru-central1-a
  requirements: {}
used: true

The IP address is now dynamic.

To change the type of a public IP address from static to dynamic, use the update REST API method for the Address resource or the AddressService/Update gRPC API call, and provide the following in the request:

ID of the IP address you want to convert to dynamic, in the addressId parameter.

To get the address ID, use the list REST API method for the Address resource or the AddressService/List gRPC API call and provide the folder ID in the folderId parameter for the REST API or folder_id for the gRPC API.

To learn how to find out the folder ID, see Getting the folder ID.
false in the reserved parameter.
Name of the reserved parameter in the updateMask parameter.

Warning

The API method will assign default values to all the parameters of the object you are modifying unless you explicitly provide them in your request. To avoid this, list the settings you want to change in the updateMask parameter as a single comma-separated string.

Converting a static public IP address to dynamic

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