IN yet another sign of the increasing scarcity of Ipv4 addresses, citing a pricing increase of 300% for new addresses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will introduce a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses starting from February 1, 2024. New charges will apply to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Global Accelerator, and AWS Site-to-site VPN tunnel services using public IPv4 addresses. The advance notice was given to AWS customers just ahead of the weekend via a blog post by the Chief Evangelist of the firm, Jeff Barr.
The main reason behind AWS' introduction of charges is the purported 300% rise in costs in acquiring a single public IPv4 address over the last five years (due to scarcity). It is also highlighted in the blog that there is a need to conserve IPv4 addresses and modernize by accelerating moves to IPv6 (no hourly IP charges).
