AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C00) — Question 288

By default, all AWS accounts are limited to ____ EIPs, because public (IPv4) Internet addresses are a scarce public resource.

Answer options

• A. 5
• B. 8
• C. 6
• D. 2

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS imposes a default limit of 5 Elastic IP (EIP) addresses per region for each AWS account to prevent IPv4 address exhaustion, as public IPv4 addresses are a limited resource. Users can request an increase to this limit through the AWS Service Quotas console if their architecture requires more EIPs. Other values (2, 6, and 8) are incorrect because they do not represent the standard default limit set by AWS.