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Re:AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses by rafaelm on Saturday August 14, 2021 @01:34PM (#28182452)
Yep, I was wondering more about the ongoing costs of "operating" the block. I was reading a superuser.com question [1] about it and it mentions ongoing costs, like transit, BGP routing etc.

This is super interesting! I didn't know this was even possible before I started looking into it.

[1]https://superuser.com/questions/323801/how-can-i-own-an-ip-a...

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Re:AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses by Sebb767 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @03:20PM (#28183242)
When I read that right, all the transit and routing seems to be done by his ISP. The superuser response is about what happens when your provider (or in this case, ISP) does not do this.
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Re:AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses by icedchai on Saturday August 14, 2021 @04:44PM (#28183797)
There are no direct costs there. I pay for the bandwidth. The ISP announces the /24 using their BGP ASN.

There are also cloud providers, like Vultr, that will allow you to do BGP with them. You could then get a network block routed to a VPS, then tunnel it out or whatever.

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