Re:AWS to start charging for IPv4 usage, but critical servic...
by jiggawatts on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:28PM
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See, you’re already acting as if you’re being selfish.
You’re not.
Having an IP per endpoint that is conveniently globally routable from any other endpoint is the entire purpose of the Internet!
It’s not some sort of greed or abuse of privilege! It’s the reason for the thing to exist!
This is like going to a shopping centre that has been growing along with the local population exponentially but refuses to buy more shopping carts. You can’t feel guilty for using a shopping cart “just” for your quick snack shopping as-if that’s a greedy move taking it away from more deserving people with “real” grocery shopping to do.
Stop thinking like this.
Seriously, STOP!
You’re the victim here.
You’re the victim of Amazon’s greed and lock-in.
You’re the victim of the lack of foresight for the most predictable resource exhaustion in the history of the world.
You’re the victim of a problem that has had a solution for two decades that is now included for free(!) in every network device being made but is being turned off by lazy administrators that can’t be bothered averting slow-moving catastrophies.
You’re not.
Having an IP per endpoint that is conveniently globally routable from any other endpoint is the entire purpose of the Internet!
It’s not some sort of greed or abuse of privilege! It’s the reason for the thing to exist!
This is like going to a shopping centre that has been growing along with the local population exponentially but refuses to buy more shopping carts. You can’t feel guilty for using a shopping cart “just” for your quick snack shopping as-if that’s a greedy move taking it away from more deserving people with “real” grocery shopping to do.
Stop thinking like this. Seriously, STOP!
You’re the victim here.
You’re the victim of Amazon’s greed and lock-in.
You’re the victim of the lack of foresight for the most predictable resource exhaustion in the history of the world.
You’re the victim of a problem that has had a solution for two decades that is now included for free(!) in every network device being made but is being turned off by lazy administrators that can’t be bothered averting slow-moving catastrophies.