[seabrookmx]

> host header

Not all workloads are HTTP.

> gateway .. for millions of customers

That's basically what an AWS ALB is. It's not provisioning bespoke infrastructure when you create it.. it's just a routing rule in their shared infra.

If Amazon wanted, they could easily have shared IP's but the cost of an IPv4 isn't so great that this approach has been warranted yet, clearly.

[saltyoldman]

Yeah I get all that, but the only two connection types that are useful are http/s/ and ssh. SSH can have work-arounds like the way google does.

Let's let the people that want non http workloads pay more.

[Dagger2]

Remember that, at one stage, the only two types that were useful were FTP and telnet. HTTP and SSH didn't even exist.

Let's not strangle the next big thing that doesn't exist yet before it can even be born, yeah?

[saltyoldman]

The next big thing can happen on IPv6

[Dagger2]

But only if you don't hide everybody away behind routers that require HTTP and a host header.