John W. O'BrienI'm starting to wonder, if Amazon continues to buy up as much of the IPv4 address space as they can, will AWS eventually become the only network---not the only IaaS platform, the only *network*---that can practically absorb IPv4 Internet growth of any kind? #IPv6
Carl@neirbowj They can't be the *only* one, there need to be telcos as well for customers to connect. But I agree, their IPv4 hoover is stong and should be stopped.
@edolnx I'm not trying to judge (yet) whether this is good or not, and, if so, for whom. I'm observing that Amazon just dropped ~$200M on the equivalent of a /8.87 from T-Mobile, which means that T-Mobile thinks $200M cash is worth more *right now* than over 9M IPv4 addresses, and Amazon thinks the opposite. In the "Weekly Global IPv4 Routing Table Report" on the NANOG mailing list, the volume of v4 space Amazon is announcing dwarfs most other operators.
Thomas Schäfer
Hugo Slabbert ⚠️@tschaefer wait, so they picked it up for ~$21/address? That's a fire sale compared to even just a short while ago. I remember things touching $55/address even just a few years back.
That the price pressure has come down sounds encouraging, imho, in terms of forward movement to v4 becoming more relegated and v6 gaining broader traction.
Nevertheless, Amazon has refinanced it after 6 months.