It's cheaper to buy ($33) than rent ($44/year) IPv4s from AWS

https://twitter.com/billfranklinuk/status/1794268011383144518

by doener • 2 years ago

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vander_elst• 2 years ago

Where can I buy an ipv4 address?

9cb14c1ec0• 2 years ago

https://www.ipxo.com/, among others.

padthai• 2 years ago

But you lose high availability, scaling to zero, and increase your CapEx. And at the end you lose money because you need 5 FTE to have them on call for every IPv4 that you self-manage (10 if it is IPv6).

csande17• 2 years ago

And besides, it's not a fair comparison, because AWS will give you a secret cheaper price if you commit to renting at least ten thousand IP addresses for the next decade.

BossingAround• 2 years ago

Do you think AWS wouldn't give you a secret cheaper price if you wanted to purchase 10k IP addresses?

dubcee349• 2 years ago

You can bring your own IPs to aws. The article is claiming that it is cheaper to rent them but that has nothing to do with high availability and scaling.

janosdebugs• 2 years ago

Given the amount of work required to onboard your own IP range[1], this is almost certainly untrue when it comes to total cost.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-byoi...

ftth_finland• 2 years ago

Not that I disagree that things are more expensive on AWS, but this is a bit simplistic, not to mention apples to oranges.

1) You cannot buy just one IPv4 address, you have to buy at least 256.

2) Owning address space isn’t free, you have to pay RIR fees. Fees depend on your region, but start at around a grand per year.

jabart2• 2 years ago

ARIN it's $250 for /24 and a IPv6/40 with an ASN.

snapplebobapple• 2 years ago

So for 256 * 33 and 250 a year i can get 256 ip4 addresses? For a noob can you explain a bit more? If i want#d to use a few at multiple different physical locations around the world iss there anything making that a bad idea/impossible?

pluc• 2 years ago

It's cheaper to buy a house than to rent. Story at 6.

47282847• 2 years ago

That’s actually not true for most countries if you compare it with eg. investment in index funds and take inflation into account.

It's cheaper to buy ($33) than rent ($44/year) IPv4s from AWS

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