AWS to start charging for IPv4 addresses (from 2024)

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#306524 1-Aug-2023 08:32

As reported by The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/31/aws_says_ipv4_addresses_cost/

This might be the push that a lot of companies and RSPs/ISPs need to finally start supporting IPv6. I would expect a lot of other hosting players to follow suit (if they do not already charge you)

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#3110290 1-Aug-2023 08:37

The way everyone's been reporting this I was expecting to find out it was like $20-30USD per IP but nope, $3.5. At work it'll add about $2500 USD a year to our bill, no where near enough to cover the engineering costs in testing IPv6 or dealing with issues from end users.

It more feels like an inflation price adjustment than a serious push to free up IPv4 space

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#3110317 1-Aug-2023 10:36

@Beccara But the key element here is there anything you can do in order to trim the fat? Are there IP addresses you don't need? Could you implement a load balancer to free up IP addressing and lower that bill further?

Amazon are not pushing you to use IPv6 but are pushing for responsible IPv4 use. Not everything needs a full blown public V4 address when there are other options such as private IP addresses, IPv6 and heck even NAT but now is also the time to consider adoption of responsible use as well as potentially adopting IPv6 so you're ready for the next price hike too.

I fully expect companies will be looking at this like it isn't so bad without looking at the bigger picture down the line where the cost can continue to go up.

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#3110405 1-Aug-2023 12:49

AWS accouncement, plus an info blog post about saving money on IPv4 addresses. They'll be about NZ$5 per month, $60 per year. This applies to all public IPv4 addresses, including EC2 servers, public load balancers (which use at least three IPv4 addresses), VPNs, NAT gateways, etc. Many big AWS customers will have public IPs on every EC2 server just because they were lazy, so it could cost them a fair bit - but those customers will have massive bills anyway. Some servers will have public IPs and elastic IPs, through laziness. This new charge might end up triggering cost saving exercises which end up saving customers money. It will save AWS money through not having to buy more expensive IPs - I heard their IPv4 pool is one of their largest assets.

For my personal EC2 server (a t3a.nano with a reserved instance to make it ever cheaper) I'm moving it to IPv6 only, with CloudFlare in front of it. CloudFlare gives it IPv4 and IPv6, CloudFlare connects to the server using IPv6 only. The server already had IPv6, it only took me an hour to change two of the sites over to IPv6 only. It shouldn't take long to move the other websites over to IPv6.