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So sad ipv6 still yet fully adopt worldwide.
I had seen they were charging $3.50/IP
https://brrr.money/
So this only applies to unattached elastic IPs?
Thats my understanding.
This was only applied to idle Elastic IP addresses, and now Elastic IP addresses in use are also charged.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights/
Good
I’m sure there’s a lot of companies who take up way more compared to what they actually need since optimizing it until now didn’t make sense to do
Amazon isn’t going to give the ips back to the registries. They’re still buying /16s almost daily.
Francisco
Well, I'd do too, they're growing
At that rate, they'll own the entire IPv4 address space in around 170 yrs.
Shit news for the low end AWS users, this more than doubles the price of my t4g.nano box
I guess it makes sense, but it still sucks
You can go IPv6 only and remove the IPv4 tax.
Title suggests @labze HostBrr has acquired AWS.
At the rate some people seem to be adopting ipv6, some of them will probably still be using ipv4 by then.
IPv4 will be in use until all the network admins of today are dead. The only way we are ever moving to IPv6 is if new admins are ONLY taught about IPv6 and be completely useless when it comes to IPv4.
170 years later…
Amazon: presenting IPv4 exclusively to prime members!
That will never happen, unfortunately.
Sadly it’s an email server*, probably going to be one of the last sectors to go IPv6
(*One of the few use cases where it’s worth a hobbyist paying AWS tax!)
There's times they buy 20 - 30 in a single day. The ARIN 'issuing' mailing list is usually flooded with their stuff.
Francisco
No need to wait for 170 years, it will be sooner...
I made a comment to a friend some years ago "V4 will still be around, and in use, long after we're in the ground."
Francisco
Yes, our recent success has allowed us to aquire AWS. Press release upcoming!
However, when we go Brr it is for the clients benefit, not the wallet
@jsg has made an argument about the impracticality of IPv6 due to 128bit routing tables or something along those lines.
With all the growth in hardware capabilities since then to those limitations still apply?
Yeah, the "they should have ued 64-bit addresses instead" argument was all the rage.
But they didn't. So it's irrelevant. And really, changing something this fundamental is such a hassle that erring on the side of the bigger address space was probably wise.
@raindog308 "they should just have added a byte or two to the IPv4 address, but kept all the backward compatibility."
Why not use IPv9 like 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 why the hassle with ugpy IPv6. So yesterday...
His argument is that the hardware difficulties make it impractical and it will still be easier to switch to a more compact standard if hardware providers and major service providers with enough clout switch to it.
I am not familiar with the hardware side of this field, talking about TCAMs and all that, but does his argument make sense?
How soon does the crossover point arrive where for ISPs and end users to switching to IPv6 becomes a superior and way easier/convenient than continuing to hoard IPv4 and combining with NAT, CGNAT etc?
All the signs indicate that it won't be soon.
Yeah, lack of backwards compatibility was the IPv6 design's biggest fumble.
I thought it was clear I was sarcastic? It was not possible to keep any backwards compatibility and have a decent long-term design at the same time. Could maybe cobble together some IPv4.11-for-Workgroups with ugly hacks like reusing parts of the "port" range for address and in turn have less ports and so on, but luckily that's not what we got in the end.