title: Using an elastic IP with an AWS Load Balancer
body: <p>It sounds like I cannot use an elastic ip with AWS Application Load Balancer.</p>
  
  <p>I currently own a domain through GoDaddy and the DNS server points to the load balancer via the CNAME. However, if the load balancer dies and gets recreated, its url changes and I then have to change the CNAME and wait for the change to propagate.</p>
  
  <p>There must be a solution around this - what is it? </p>
  
  <p>It looks like the solution might be to use two load balancers - <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/using-static-ip-addresses-for-application-load-balancers/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/using-static-ip-addresses-for-application-load-balancers/</a>, but this seems really excessive - I have a small application right now. </p>