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Re:AWS Begins Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by seligman99 on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:44PM (#36911342)
$0.005 per hour per IP.

Assuming AWS has 50% utilization on IPs they've assigned for EC2, this is a $1.28 billion/yr fee they created.

Scale is fun.

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Re:AWS Begins Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by kubota on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:01PM (#36912505)
Jeff will be able to commission another sculpture for his yacht.
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Re:AWS Begins Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by chrisbolt on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:31PM (#36913640)
That’s also assuming that adding the fee with 6 months of notice won’t make people reduce their IP address usage to avoid the fee.
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Re:AWS Begins Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by overstay8930 on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:08PM (#36914013)
Extra scandalous too since stuff like load balancers will use a bunch of IPv4 addresses that they can now charge extra for, with no way to avoid the fees since you can't turn off IPv4.
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