API Overview

APIs provided by the EIP service include native OpenStack APIs and EIP APIs.

A combination of these two types of APIs allows you to use all functions provided by the EIP service.

**Table 1** EIP APIs
Type	Description
Elastic IP	APIs for assigning, querying, updating, and releasing EIPs
Bandwidth	APIs for querying and updating bandwidth
Quota	API for querying quota values
EIP Tag Management	APIs for adding tags to EIPs as well as querying and deleting EIP tags

**Table 2** Native OpenStack APIs
Type	Description
API Version Information	APIs for querying all available API versions and displaying the results in pages.
Floating IP Address	APIs for assigning, querying, updating, and releasing floating IP addresses