# Running public Discourse server w/o Elastic IP assigned

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-public-discourse-server-w-o-elastic-ip-assigned/212843
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [December 21, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-public-discourse-server-w-o-elastic-ip-assigned/212843 "2021-12-21T22:03:28Z")
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### Author: ![lee7](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lee7/32/244327_2.png) [@lee7](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lee7)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-public-discourse-server-w-o-elastic-ip-assigned/212843/1 "2021-12-21T22:03:29Z")

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Hi, when deploying Discourse on AWS, is it necessary to assign an Elastic IP address or is a CNAME pointed at the EC2 instance’s public DNS entry enough? e.g. [ec2-x-xx-x-xxx.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com](http://ec2-x-xx-x-xxx.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com)

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-public-discourse-server-w-o-elastic-ip-assigned/212843/2 "2021-12-21T23:01:06Z")

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If the instance has a public IP and is reachable from the internet, our default install guide will work.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-public-discourse-server-w-o-elastic-ip-assigned/212843/3 "2022-01-20T23:01:27Z")

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