Can you not assign static IPs to ELB instances? This might be a stupid question...ELB is one of the older AWS resources that I've never really touched since Nginx is so powerful & easy to set up.
No, you can't. You can instead create your own EC2 server, give it a static IP (well, "Elastic IP") and then hope your own server doesn't go down. This is the reason why I prefer to use an ELB since I never seen stability issues with it.
top 3 google responses for "elb static ip" say you can't, the truth may vary