Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

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    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.