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Re:External IPv6 addresses for VM instances is now in Genera... by parhamn on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:41AM (#27984363)
> Why would services hosted by Google be different than other IPs? Sure those ranges are billed differently, but they must already handle billing differentiation for different v6 ranges in order to support different intra-zone/inter-zone/inter-region/internet bandwidth pricing.

They mention your reason.

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Re:External IPv6 addresses for VM instances is now in Genera... by Clewza313 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:07AM (#27984694)
Billing is the lesser reason. It's the networking that's the tricky bit.
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