Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket

Re:Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket by owenmarshall on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:48AM (#20991665)

Funny enough the highest price point for IP ranges is somewhere between /16 and /24, IIRC.

You can count how many companies need and will be willing to pay 8-9 figures for a /8 without getting to your toes. And subnetting it and selling it to maximize returns is hard work.

But if you’re sitting on a /21? That’ll move before you can count how many IPs are in the block ;)

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Re:Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket by OGWhales on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:11AM (#20992135)

Why are they so valuable?

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Re:Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket by lolc on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:12AM (#20992494)

Because there are only four billion addresses all in all. Every device that wants to be reachable on the Internet needs one. These days, mobile devices don't get a public address anymore and there are all sorts of complications due to it.

We're slowly transitioning to a new scheme with ample address space. But to nobody's surprise it's taking decades longer than envisioned.

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Re:Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket by sleepychu on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:55AM (#20992708)

Hopefully it's surprising to the envisioner(s)!

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Re:Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket by lolc on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:16AM (#20992847)

I assume it was willful optimism on the part of the envisioners. If you tell people it will take decades it will take even longer!

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