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Re:AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay by sairamkunala on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:26AM (#36943014)
AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839887

https://gist.github.com/atoonk/b749305012ae5b86bacba9b01160d...

AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses(https://github.com/seligman/aws-ip-ranges) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177807

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Re:AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay by whiatp on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:26AM (#36944067)
With all that investment in addresses I'm surprised AWS is still the first cloud provider to charge for them. (As far as I know.) It will be interesting to see if other cloud providers will follow, and if the cloud providers compete over the price or just match AWS. It kind of feels like AWS charging for V4s will "give permission" to other providers to charge.

I'm also curious if the price will come down over time as addresses are yielded back. I guess it depends on if their goal is to recoup all the money they spent on addresses, or just to avoid running out.

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Re:AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay by wmf on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:13PM (#36944825)
AWS is the last major cloud to start charging, not the first.
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Re:AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay by whiatp on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:02PM (#36946465)
Ah, should have googled. I stand corrected.
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Re:AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay by CyanLite2 on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:18PM (#36944911)
GCP and Azure have always charged for IPv4 addresses. If anything, AWS was the last of the public cloud providers to provide them for free.
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Re:AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay by Gigachad on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:33PM (#36950350)
I've even seen small VPS hosts have discount plans if you turn off the v4 address.
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