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by seligman99 1051 days ago
$0.005 per hour per IP.

Assuming AWS has 50% utilization on IPs they've assigned for EC2, this is a $1.28 billion/yr fee they created.

Scale is fun.

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Extra scandalous too since stuff like load balancers will use a bunch of IPv4 addresses that they can now charge extra for, with no way to avoid the fees since you can't turn off IPv4.
That’s also assuming that adding the fee with 6 months of notice won’t make people reduce their IP address usage to avoid the fee.
Jeff will be able to commission another sculpture for his yacht.