VPC - Subnet - IPv4

  • AWS reserves 5 IP addresses (first 4 and last 1) in each subnet
  • These 5 IP addresses are not available for use and can't be assigned to an EC2 instance
  • e.g: If CIDR block 10.0.0.0/24, reserved IP address are
    • 10.0.0.0 - Network Address
    • 10.0.0.1 - reserved by AWS for the VPC router
    • 10.0.0.2 - reserved by AWS for mapping to Amazon-provided DNS
    • 10.0.0.3 - reserved by AWS for future use
    • 10.0.0.255 - Network Broadcast Address. AWS does not support broadcast in a VPC, therefore the address is reserved