Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    9 months ago

    From the article, 79 million IPv4 addresses, 0.005/hour($3.60/month), and an estimated 30% utilisation. $85m per month, $1bn/y.

    It kinda also sets a new standard price for IPV4 addresses. I’m looking forward to the day that IPV6 (or translation) is commonplace enough that things can be run V6 only.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      From the article, 79 million IPv4 addresses

      So that’s how many IPv4 addresses Amazon has? For comparison, if I ask my server provider nicely they will give me a huge block of IPv6 addresses. For free. The largest block they will give a single customer (again, for free) is a /56 block which is 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IP addresses.

      To give you an idea how big that is… if I had ten billion customers, I could allocate several hundred billion unique IP addresses to each customer. And that’s just with a section of the IPv6 address space that networks will hand out for free.