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AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to encourage the use of IPv6 instead.

The update will come into effect on February 1, 2024, when AWS customers will see a charge of $0.005 (half a cent) per IP address per hour for all public IPv4 addresses. ... These charges will apply to all AWS services including EC2, Relational Database Service (RDS) database instances, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) nodes, and will apply across all AWS regions, the company said.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What's their rationale? Is there one?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Their network admins are old and don't want to learn new stuff, or their networking equipment is old and they don't want to replace it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

IPv6 existed when I was a kid. It is not even remotely new.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know, but it wasn't commonly used until IPv4 depletion became a more serious issue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I must've said this at least 10 years ago: the more people move to IPv6, the more IPv4 are left free, so the less reason for moving to IPv6.

The "migration" could easily take several more decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We were talking about it when I was in undergrad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but for all we know you went to college thousands of years in the future, Time Lord.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That is why I think IPv6 is a non-starter. ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Compliance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

"Compliance with regulations."