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title: IPAM FAQ
description: Discover Scaleway IPAM.
dates:
  validation: 2025-12-18
productIcon: IpamProductIcon
---

## Overview

### What is IPAM?

**IP** **A**ddress **M**anager (IPAM) is Scaleway's tool for planning, tracking, and managing the IP address space of Scaleway products. It acts as a single source of truth for the IP addresses of Scaleway resources. Managed products, such as Databases and Load Balancer, are fully integrated into IPAM, and Private Networks' [DHCP server](/vpc/concepts/#dhcp) uses IPAM to assign private, static IP addresses to attached resources.

### What can I do with IPAM?

The public rollout of IPAM functionality is being carried out gradually. IPAM is now in General Availability, offering several different functionalities in the [Scaleway console](https://console.scaleway.com/ipam/), including viewing, tagging, and filtering all your [private IP addresses](/ipam/concepts/#private-ip-address). You can also [reserve](/ipam/how-to/reserve-ip/) a private IP on one of your Private Networks and use it to attach a specified resource to the network.

Management of public (flexible) IP addresses with IPAM is planned for the future.

## Compatibility and integration

### Can I use a reserved private IP to attach any kind of managed resource to a Private Network?

Currently, the Scaleway console only supports attachment with a reserved IP for Instances, Load Balancers, Public Gateways, and Elastic Metal servers. Support for Managed Databases will be coming soon.

### Can I use a reserved private IP with a virtual machine hosted on my Elastic Metal server?

Yes, this functionality is now available via the Scaleway console and API. Simply reserve an IP with IPAM, then select it when [attaching a custom resource to a Private Network](/vpc/how-to/attach-resources-to-pn/).

## Does Scaleway provide a Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service?

BYOIP is not currently available at Scaleway, but we are aware that there is a demand for this service. We recommend that you add or upvote a [feature request](https://feature-request.scaleway.com/) to register your interest.

## Can I request that I get a specific IP address when creating a flexible IP?

No, this is not possible. Flexible (public) IP addresses are allocated from a pool of addresses, and you cannot specify an address when creating one.