Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
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Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
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Re: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
#2I’m more surprised that a single IP address is worth $20 apparently than Amazon owning 100 million of them.
What I wonder, is it a competitive advantage for Amazon at this point that they have so many? Phrased differently, would it benefit Amazon if the current status quo of IPv4 vs IPv6 adoption is maintained?
Re: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
#3I’d be curious how that compares to other cloud providers.
Re: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
#4Different metric: they own ~2.558% of all the available ipv4 addresses.
Re: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
#5I’m more surprised that a single IP address is worth $20 apparently than Amazon owning 100 million of them. What I wonder, is it a competitive advantage for Amazon at this point that they have so many? Phrased differently, would it benefit Amazon if the current status quo of IPv4 vs IPv6 adoption is maintained?
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#6This is 2.5% of the total adress space - not usable, total. It's about the equivalent of 6.25 class A (/8) prefixes. Quite impressive.
Re: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
#7I’m more surprised that a single IP address is worth $20 apparently than Amazon owning 100 million of them. What I wonder, is it a competitive advantage for Amazon at this point that they have so many? Phrased differently, would it benefit Amazon if the current status quo of IPv4 vs IPv6 adoption is maintained?
Yes, I think it would. Because despite the obvious business advantage they have, any would-be competitor would need IPs at a similar scale. That will either cost a ton more than Amazon has, or they simply won’t be available.
I own 2048 IPv4’s myself and their value is ever increasing. Like digital real estate, without the fluctuation of crypto. But I would prefer it if IPv6 would take over IPv4, and fast, because it will become a problem that will stifle competitors at some point. If most IPv4’s are owned by big corporations, that’s essentially.. them owning the current internet.
IPv6 is practically free.
I would love to see a breakdown of IPv4 FAANG ownership!
Re: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
#8I’m more surprised that a single IP address is worth $20 apparently than Amazon owning 100 million of them. What I wonder, is it a competitive advantage for Amazon at this point that they have so many? Phrased differently, would it benefit Amazon if the current status quo of IPv4 vs IPv6 adoption is maintained?
The more they own the more scarce they are outside of AWS.
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Re: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
#10I’m more surprised that a single IP address is worth $20 apparently than Amazon owning 100 million of them. What I wonder, is it a competitive advantage for Amazon at this point that they have so many? Phrased differently, would it benefit Amazon if the current status quo of IPv4 vs IPv6 adoption is maintained?
I've seen some VM providers charge more to get an instance with IPv4 connectivity. Amazon doesn't charge extra for that (last I looked anyway), so that's a potential advantage.
IPv6 penetration is growing, but Akamai reports that even the most IPv6 networks only go to ~ 92% IPv6. So if you want to have full reach, you need IPv4, but you don't really need IPv6 (although, you may want it, some of the CGNAT systems that users are behind are pretty bad, avoiding that is nice)