title: Is there any way to turn a non-elastic IP into an elastic IP on aws?
body: <p>I have done some research and don't think it is possible but figured I would ask on here just to be sure. </p>
  
  <p>My predecessor decided to use the public and private IP of one of our database servers in an extremely large amount of places, now that we are going to be resizing this DB server going through and changing all of those IPs over would take a large amount of time and the possibility of missing one is pretty high. </p>
  
  <p>I am wondering if it is at all possible to take the current IP on the server ( which is not elastic ) and some how convert it to an elastic IP. To clarify I am not looking to add a new elastic IP to the server but rather take the IP that is currently assigned to it and make that elastic. If this is not something that I can do using the SDK / Console is it something that Amazon could do behind the scenes if we were to get support? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks !</p>