AWS doesn't have good enough IPv6 support for an exodus from IPv4. ALB does not support IPv6-only. Cloudfront only supports IPv4 origins. API Gateway only supports IPv4.

This scared me but they are only charging for public IPv4 which I never use.

2024 is shaping up as the year people drop AWS

Given that this was AWS doing what their top two competitors were already doing, and that for most people it’s smaller than the price hikes GCP customers have had last year and coming February 1st, I’m skeptical that anyone significant is going to make this the issue they leave over.

Moving away from the cloud is the trend. Moving between AWS and GCP will probably stay stable.

Do you have a source for that claim?

In this thread I'm being a source. Anyone asks you, you can point to this thread

Dropping AWS and VMWare at the same time. This should get interesting.

I actually did exactly this.

I run a very small site for a local club from an AWS Nano instance. Minimum cost is important. When AWS announced that they would begin charging for public IPv4 addresses, I enabled IPv6 on the subnet (which was tricky), updates the DNS record, and removed the IPv4 address.

In my case, no one notices or cares because they almost always access the site through their cell phones.

The IPv4 price is still tiny, and you anyway have to pay for it since going IPv6-only is not viable for a service in 2024 still. It's not going to significantly move the needle towards IPv6. And the price hikes will also be tiny.

Well, my employer’s AWS bill is in the region of $20m/year and the additional IPv4 tax is on track for adding an additional $250k to that for no benefit at all.

quarter million sounds enough to pay an engineer to make it work w/o v4. then again it's only a 1% increase and might not be worth the effort.

Well, 1.25% is quite tiny. And I'd bet you're not moving to IPv6 anyway, at least not entirely, since a good amount of people are probably accessing your services over IPv4-only connections.

I was implementing IPv6 networking at an ISP/VPS provider in my 20s including customized Xen network startup scripts(because they didn't support v6 or VLANS).

I'm turning 40.

The next few months will be fine.

Enjoy your quiet birthday :)