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by jedberg 875 days ago
> You have absolutely no idea what their constraints are or what their IPv6 decision making process is.

Yes I do. I've talked to them about it in depth.

> But it's not "because the hardware doesn't support it";

I never said the hardware doesn't support it. I said the hardware needs upgrades to support it at their scale, which includes software updates to the hardware, as well as the operations around said hardware.

It's been a priority for them for years and customers have been asking for years. It's not done because it requires a lot of work and capital. Hopefully the revenue they bring in from charging for IPv4 will help offset the cost of upgrades.

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Yes I do. I've talked to them about it in depth.

Thanks for that. I needed a good chuckle after today.

And thank you as well. Everyone’s a comedian today apparently.
I mean you can choose to believe me or not, but I just worked at Amazon for the last two years and worked with AWS networking products while I was there, including this: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...
You know there are actual network engineers who've like, written IPv6 RFCs here right?
You know he's like a Staff Engineer at Amazon right now right?