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AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

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Re: AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

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I personally dont think 45$ per year is going to change habits that much, especially for larger customers who have a lot of public IPs.

Already a lot of discussion about this at my job. It’s a lot of $ at scale. We will put a bunch of work in to avoid the fee.

Re: AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

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I personally dont think 45$ per year is going to change habits that much, especially for larger customers who have a lot of public IPs.

Huh, speaking of lots of public IPs, most of MIT's old class A is now owned by Amazon :-(

NetRange: 18.32.0.0 - 18.255.255.255

Re: AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hobby customers can buy an entire VPS, complete with IPv4 to tunnel through, for 1/4 that

Hobby customers aren't using AWS, by and large. And it's only a matter of time before we see more and more costs for IPv4 down in these tiers as well.

> Hobby customers aren't using AWS

AWS has the easy to use Lightsail[1] VPS offer with cheapest product at $3.5/mo but they'll likely increase these prices as well, since there's an IPv4 address included.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/

Re: AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

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> A new blog post shows you how to use Elastic Load Balancers and NAT Gateways for ingress and egress traffic, while avoiding the use of a public IPv4 address for each instance that you launch.

It would be nice if this came with reasonably priced NAT gateways. The current pricing is outrageous.

Re: AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

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I personally dont think 45$ per year is going to change habits that much, especially for larger customers who have a lot of public IPs.

Huh, speaking of lots of public IPs, most of MIT's old class A is now owned by Amazon :-( NetRange: 18.32.0.0 - 18.255.255.255

Why :-( ? There's no way MIT was using more than a tiny fraction of that /8; now it's actually being put to real use, and MIT probably got some money out of it. Everybody wins.

Re: AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

#20
post #2

I personally dont think 45$ per year is going to change habits that much, especially for larger customers who have a lot of public IPs.

Huh, speaking of lots of public IPs, most of MIT's old class A is now owned by Amazon :-( NetRange: 18.32.0.0 - 18.255.255.255

The market is working :-)
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