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That is a solution for companies like Google or non-essential cloud software provider. For all others serious network segmentation is the safer approach. You could argue that this network is far too large and that is probably true.

There is future tech on ancient software stacks. There is no safe solution to put it on the net directly.

AWS was an example in the article. Easy to get a fixed IP? True. Getting a fixed IP for outgoing traffic? Not that easy anymore - AWS is nice, but for many application it just isn't a solution.