Updated on 2026-02-27 GMT+08:00

Advantages

EIP Advantages

  • Flexibility

    EIPs can be flexibly bound to or unbound from ECSs, BMSs, NAT gateways, load balancers, or virtual IP addresses. EIP bandwidths can be scaled according to service changes.

  • Cost-effective

    EIPs are available on a pay-per-use (billed by bandwidth or traffic) or yearly/monthly (billed by bandwidth) basis. You can use shared bandwidths to enjoy lower bandwidth costs. Generally, if you have frequent data transfer needs, a yearly/monthly subscription is more cost-effective.

  • Ease of use

    EIP binding, unbinding, and bandwidth adjustments take effect immediately.

Global EIP Advantages

  • Global connectivity

    A global EIP allows you to specify a global region to assign a public IP address. You can bind a global EIP to a cloud instance (such as an ECS or a load balancer) from any region to enable communications between a cloud resource and the Internet.

  • Flexible operations

    Global EIP binding and unbinding take effect immediately. You can modify global connection bandwidths and global internet bandwidths as required.