[usr1106]

Replying to myself: Of course these price reductions why they suddenly charge for IPv4 addresses. To my understanding AWS does not suffer from scarcity, they have huge pools.

At least for customers using a lot of egress the charging per address is probably cheaper. For small businesses with relatively little businesses but not so slim deployments with addresses hanging around on many little used or even forgotten resources it's the other way round.

Edit: I had already forgotten the 42% price raise hitting myself on my personal Lightsail instance in May.

[fmajid]

The market price for IPv4 addresses has peaked:

https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/are-we-past-peak-ipv4

Amazon’s move seems to be motivated by pure greed and quasi-monopoly complacency.

[ckdarby]

Maybe, but I don't think so. The market is simply going through a cycle.

With such a high price per IP there are a lot of organizations finally putting in the effort of cleaning up their space and selling off blocks. I know a company that was doing consolidated and clean up for an aggregation of freeing 200k worth of space. They were looking at adding $15-35M to their pockets.

IPv6 support is still not where it needs to be. Look at the clouds. There are many services that still are only IPv4 or partial ipv6 support. Just check back in 1-3 years and the price will have recovered.