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<section id="release-ip-for-vpc">
  <title>Releasing an IP Address Alloted to a VPC</title>
  <para>The IP address is a limited resource. If you no longer need a particular IP, you can
    disassociate it from its VPC and return it to the pool of available addresses. An IP address can
    be released from its tier, only when all the networking ( port forwarding, load balancing, or
    StaticNAT ) rules are removed for this IP address. The released IP address will still belongs to
    the same VPC.</para>
  <orderedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>Log in to the &PRODUCT; UI as an administrator or end user.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the left navigation, choose Network.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the Select view, select VPC.</para>
      <para>All the VPCs that you have created for the account is listed in the page.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Click the Configure button of the VPC whose IP you want to release.</para>
      <para>The VPC page is displayed where all the tiers you created are listed in a
        diagram.</para>
      <para>The following options are displayed.</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Internal LB</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Public LB IP</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Static NAT</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Virtual Machines</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>CIDR</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>The following router information is displayed:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Private Gateways</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Public IP Addresses</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Site-to-Site VPNs</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Network ACL Lists</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Select Public IP Addresses.</para>
      <para>The IP Addresses page is displayed.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Click the IP you want to release.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the Details tab, click the Release IP button <inlinemediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="./images/release-ip-icon.png"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <phrase>release-ip-icon.png: button to release an IP.</phrase>
          </textobject>
        </inlinemediaobject></para>
    </listitem>
  </orderedlist>
</section>