Converting a dynamic public IP address to static

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Updated at May 5, 2025

You can convert a dynamic public IP address to static. Static public IP addresses are reserved and remain attached to respective resources when VMs and network load balancers are stopped.

Note

Make sure to check out our pricing policy for inactive static public IP addresses.

Management console

CLI

API

In the management console, select the folder containing the address.
In the list of services, select Virtual Private Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select IP addresses.
Click in the row with the IP address and select Make static.
In the window that opens, click Change.

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

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

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 | false    | true |
+----------------------+------+---------------+----------+------+

The false value of the RESERVED parameter for the IP address with the e2l46k8conff******** ID shows that this address is dynamic.

Convert the address to static by using the --reserved=true key and the address ID:

yc vpc address update --reserved=true 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: {}
reserved: true
used: true

Now that the reserved parameter is true, the IP address is static.

To change the type of a public IP address from dynamic to static, 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 static 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 request parameter.

To learn how to find out the folder ID, see Getting the folder ID.
true 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.

The number of static public IP addresses is limited. If the number allowed by the quota is not enough for you, contact support to have your quota increased.

Converting a dynamic public IP address to static

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