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title: "Acquire the public IP from the NAT Gateway"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/DeploymentGuideIntegratingB1TDwithAWSRoute53/664371643/Acquire%20the%20public%20IP%20from%20the%20NAT%20Gateway"
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To acquire the external IP of a NAT Gateway, perform the following steps:

1. In the* AWS Management Console*, input **Elastic IP** into the search bar.

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2. Click the text **Elastic IP addresses** in the list that is revealed.

![image](media://97277997-9202-4a06-af7e-9e877b8b1daf)

3. Once on the Elastic IP addresses page, locate the Elastic IP of the NAT Gateway you’ve configured for your VPC. Copy and **save** this IP to another location for use later. *Note: the IP will be located in the ****Allocated IPv4 address**** column.*

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