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AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge and Public IP Insights

54 points by jeffbarr 3y ago

psanford 3y ago
Wow this is a huge price increase for AWS. Its kind of shocking that they are raising prices for IPv4 addresses instead of offering a discount for hosts that are not using a public IPv4 address. Very un-aws like.
neverrroot 3y ago
$0.005 per hour per IP, or $43.8 per year, is expensive. Too expensive.
- ericpauley 3y ago
  Incredibly expensive, especially given IPv4s have recently been auctioning at around $40 outright...
synack 3y ago
I tried to setup an IPv6-only VPC last month and ran into lots of edge cases. For example, Terraform's aws provider doesn't support the http_protocol_ipv6 metadata option for EC2 instances, you can only set it in a launch template. It's a two year old issue: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/22332 https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/2... I'm glad to see AWS driving people towards IPv6, but the tooling and documentation need to get a lot better.
ericpauley 3y ago
It should be noted that this brings AWS in line (slightly above) with GCP ($0.004/hr) and Azure ($0.0036/hr). It's still a frustrating change, though.
overstay8930 3y ago
This is essentially a broad price increase without saying it as things stand today. Most AWS services require IPv4 and in most cases even if you don't require IPv4 there isn't even a way to turn it off. Example: if you run load balancers you are going to pay for every single IPv4 address with no way to turn it off, even if you are IPv6-only. This means an ALB with 3 AZs (What AWS recommends), went from 20/mo to 32/mo and no amount of planning or optimizations can lower that cost.
mariuz 3y ago
One solution is CloudFlare Automatic IPv6 Gateway https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automatic-ipv6-gatewa/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automati...
citizenpaul 3y ago
To me this signals the arrival of the point that all cloud lock in "paranoid dinosaurs" were warning about all these years. Its all gonna get worse from here now that the market is settled. It was inevitable that they would have to start eating thier clients to keep the stock market happy.
atyvr 3y ago
It's better to buy your own IPv4 addresses :) The price of single IPv4 address, is about the same as renting it for a year from AWS for $43.

54 points by jeffbarr 3y ago

Wow this is a huge price increase for AWS. Its kind of shocking that they are raising prices for IPv4 addresses instead of offering a discount for hosts that are not using a public IPv4 address. Very un-aws like.

neverrroot 3y ago

$0.005 per hour per IP, or $43.8 per year, is expensive. Too expensive.

ericpauley 3y ago
Incredibly expensive, especially given IPv4s have recently been auctioning at around $40 outright...

synack 3y ago

I tried to setup an IPv6-only VPC last month and ran into lots of edge cases. For example, Terraform's aws provider doesn't support the http_protocol_ipv6 metadata option for EC2 instances, you can only set it in a launch template. It's a two year old issue: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/22332 https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/2... I'm glad to see AWS driving people towards IPv6, but the tooling and documentation need to get a lot better.

ericpauley 3y ago

It should be noted that this brings AWS in line (slightly above) with GCP ($0.004/hr) and Azure ($0.0036/hr). It's still a frustrating change, though.

overstay8930 3y ago

This is essentially a broad price increase without saying it as things stand today. Most AWS services require IPv4 and in most cases even if you don't require IPv4 there isn't even a way to turn it off. Example: if you run load balancers you are going to pay for every single IPv4 address with no way to turn it off, even if you are IPv6-only. This means an ALB with 3 AZs (What AWS recommends), went from 20/mo to 32/mo and no amount of planning or optimizations can lower that cost.

mariuz 3y ago

One solution is CloudFlare Automatic IPv6 Gateway https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automatic-ipv6-gatewa/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automati...

citizenpaul 3y ago

To me this signals the arrival of the point that all cloud lock in "paranoid dinosaurs" were warning about all these years. Its all gonna get worse from here now that the market is settled. It was inevitable that they would have to start eating thier clients to keep the stock market happy.

atyvr 3y ago

It's better to buy your own IPv4 addresses :) The price of single IPv4 address, is about the same as renting it for a year from AWS for $43.