Amazon Charging for IPv4 Addresses
As you may know, IPv4 addresses are an increasingly scarce resource and the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address has risen more than 300% over the past 5 years. This change reflects our own costs and is also intended to encourage you to be a bit more frugal with your use of public IPv4 addresses and to think about accelerating your adoption of IPv6 as a modernization and conservation measure.
Andree Toonk (via Hacker News):
Effective February 1, 2024, there will be a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether attached to a service or not. That’s a total of $43.80 per year, a pretty hefty number!
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Crunching all that data, we can determine that Amazon has at least 131,932,752 IPv4 addresses.
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Given this data, I believe it’s fair to say that AWS will likely make anywhere between $400 Million and $1 Billion dollars a year with this new IPv4 charge!
luhn:
What’s really offensive about this is that AWS does not have good enough IPv6 support for most customers to migrate off of IPv4, even if they want to.
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My favourite UK web hosting service, Mythic Beasts, has charged for IPv4 addresses for some time. Currently £20/year when getting a VPS. IPv6 support comes as standard. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/sales/ipv6
Good! OK so it's a clear money-grab by Amazon, but at least the reactionaries will have one less plausible excuse for not learning IPv6 (and instead complaining about it on various websites frequented by techies).
