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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)

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[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 27 points 9 months ago

From the article, 79 million IPv4 addresses, 0.005/hour($3.60/month), and an estimated 30% utilisation. $85m per month, $1bn/y.

It kinda also sets a new standard price for IPV4 addresses. I'm looking forward to the day that IPV6 (or translation) is commonplace enough that things can be run V6 only.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 21 points 9 months ago

I've given up on the IPv6 transition happening in my lifetime.

[-] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

From the article, 79 million IPv4 addresses

So that's how many IPv4 addresses Amazon has? For comparison, if I ask my server provider nicely they will give me a huge block of IPv6 addresses. For free. The largest block they will give a single customer (again, for free) is a /56 block which is 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IP addresses.

To give you an idea how big that is... if I had ten billion customers, I could allocate several hundred billion unique IP addresses to each customer. And that's just with a section of the IPv6 address space that networks will hand out for free.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 6 points 9 months ago

I run my monero node as v6 only and it works super well

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

How many drugs to you order and what's your preference?

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 8 points 9 months ago

Very very few and marijuana

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Smart man

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

And the rest. Bit o crack at the weekends and for special occasions you do a big order of oxys, xans and ket. ;)

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 3 points 9 months ago

Lol, more like groceries and home insulation with a few donations to app development thrown in on the side.

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