IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS

HeartyBeast@kbin.social to Technology@kbin.social – 3 points –
theregister.com

AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow.

AWS cited increasing scarcity and claimed the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address for customer use had risen more than 300 percent over the past few years.

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I'm for it if it actually increases adoption. IPv6 has its flaws but it's better than layers and layers of IPv4 NAT.

Totally agreed. I hope this pushes IPv6 adoption more. At least from what I've seen, it's not actually that difficult to use, even though at first it looks that way.