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What is the difference between Static IP in Lightsail, and an Elastic IP if any?

I am trying to request a reverse DNS entry with AWS for my mail server. I did not have a Lightsail Static IP and the support team said I need an Elastic IP. So I added a Lightsail Static IP. I am hoping it is same as an Elastic IP. Is it?

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In the case of LightSail, I believe it is - You can unassign and re-assign this IP as needed to different instances, the same as a Elastic IP for EC2s. If you didn't have one, you would get a new one each time you rebooted - So a RDNS for it wouldn't really be worthwhile.

Reference: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/understanding-static-ip-addresses-in-amazon-lightsail

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