AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses

Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by efitz on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:33PM (#36992978)

Looking at it a different way, IPv4 addresses are scarce so it makes more economic sense to have fewer, central owners that can maximize usage, rather than millions of individuals owners, many or most of which would not necessarily be using them at any given time.

Putting a price on IP address usage again is a mechanism to prevent squatting/hoarding a scarce resource.

But if you don’t want to “rent” IP addresses from anyone, you can still find blocks for sale. Last time I checked (last year) class C blocks were going for $15k-$20k.

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Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by efitz on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:34PM (#36993000)

BTW AWS specifically allows you to bring your own IP addresses.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-byoi...

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Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by mike_d on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:58PM (#36995332)

> makes more economic sense to have fewer, central owners that can maximize usage

What you have described is effectively a China-style ICP license[1]. Unless you are willing to give a big name cloud provider $x per month, you shouldn't be able to put a service on the internet?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license

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Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by ripdog on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:22AM (#36995452)

Only on legacy IP. We're trying to kill it.

A bit of pain will be necessary to finally get modern IP across the line of mainstream usage.

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Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by mike_d on Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:56AM (#37009377)

"We" are not doing anything of the sort. 11 years into IPv6 and you still can't single home a network behind v6. Much like DNSSEC the purists refuse to admit that it has basically been a failure outside of very specific use cases.

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Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by sgjohnson on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:18AM (#36997450)

I have a /24 of v4 just so I don’t have to run NAT at home. My Apple Watch has a real, globally unique IP address.

Is this valuable use of IPv4 space? I think yes.

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Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses by backendanon on Friday August 04, 2023 @01:55PM (#37003435)

"Putting a price on IP address usage again is a mechanism to prevent squatting/hoarding a scarce resource."

That isn't one company's call, it's past time for the DOJ to step in.

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