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Backblaze employee here. I am surprised Amazon S3 still doesn't support IPv6. In our very first invite only beta to Backblaze B2 we don't plan to support IPv6

Backblaze employee here. I am surprised Amazon S3 still doesn't support IPv6. In our very first invite only beta to Backblaze B2 we don't plan to support IPv6, but we plan to support it soon after. Maybe it is much harder for Amazon because they have so much legacy code and we could plan for it up front?

atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Marketing here -> What do you MEAN we're not going to support it?
- brianwski 11y ago
  It was cut for time to market reasons from the first release. Sorry about that.
  - deleted 11y ago
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  - atYevP 11y ago
    I thought my department was in charge of release timing? Engineering be damned!
    - denblaze 11y ago
      What's my department in charge of?
      - atYevP 11y ago
        I don't know...what department are you in?
- jmnicolas 11y ago
  When you learn something from your company on HN there's something to be said about your internal communication or lack thereof ;-) I'm not going to throw you the first stone, I have to read the local newspaper if I want to know what's going on at my (very small) company.
xenadu02 11y ago
Amazon not supporting IPv6 is inexcusable. They're basically holding half the startup world hostage on deploying it.
- api 11y ago
  https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.softlayer.com/ https://www.softlayer.com/ https://www.vultr.com/ https://www.vultr.com/ https://www.linode.com/ https://www.linode.com/ https://www.arpnetworks.com/ https://www.arpnetworks.com/ https://www.ovh.com/ https://www.ovh.com/ I don't understand why everyone has to use Amazon. Their price/performance for compute is not great and their per-node reliability isn't any better than any of the above providers either. (Google compute has auto-migration on hardware problems so they score higher here, but still no IPv6.) Amazon does have a great service ecosystem but most people don't use most of it. I'd expect big-and-dumb "enterprise" IT people to pick a provider by picking the one with the largest features list and/or the highest "nobody ever got fired for" score, but I'm surprised that startups do the same. All of the above providers support IPv6 out of the box and have for a while. One of the ways startups can win is by making first-handed technically-informed vendor decisions instead of going with the herd.
api 11y ago
Google Compute doesn't even support IPv6 and Google is a big pro-IPv6 company. I suspect that somewhere under the hood these services are using some expensive enterprise SDN stuff that still doesn't support IPv6.
- jo909 11y ago
  I'm not sure if you meant just that, but they certainly use in-house developed SDN stuff. That will at such scale still be "expensive" and "enterprise" tough.

atYevP 11y ago

Yev from Marketing here -> What do you MEAN we're not going to support it?

brianwski 11y ago
It was cut for time to market reasons from the first release. Sorry about that.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
- atYevP 11y ago
  I thought my department was in charge of release timing? Engineering be damned!
  - denblaze 11y ago
    What's my department in charge of?
    - atYevP 11y ago
      I don't know...what department are you in?
jmnicolas 11y ago
When you learn something from your company on HN there's something to be said about your internal communication or lack thereof ;-) I'm not going to throw you the first stone, I have to read the local newspaper if I want to know what's going on at my (very small) company.

xenadu02 11y ago

Amazon not supporting IPv6 is inexcusable. They're basically holding half the startup world hostage on deploying it.

api 11y ago
https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.softlayer.com/ https://www.softlayer.com/ https://www.vultr.com/ https://www.vultr.com/ https://www.linode.com/ https://www.linode.com/ https://www.arpnetworks.com/ https://www.arpnetworks.com/ https://www.ovh.com/ https://www.ovh.com/ I don't understand why everyone has to use Amazon. Their price/performance for compute is not great and their per-node reliability isn't any better than any of the above providers either. (Google compute has auto-migration on hardware problems so they score higher here, but still no IPv6.) Amazon does have a great service ecosystem but most people don't use most of it. I'd expect big-and-dumb "enterprise" IT people to pick a provider by picking the one with the largest features list and/or the highest "nobody ever got fired for" score, but I'm surprised that startups do the same. All of the above providers support IPv6 out of the box and have for a while. One of the ways startups can win is by making first-handed technically-informed vendor decisions instead of going with the herd.

api 11y ago

Google Compute doesn't even support IPv6 and Google is a big pro-IPv6 company. I suspect that somewhere under the hood these services are using some expensive enterprise SDN stuff that still doesn't support IPv6.

jo909 11y ago
I'm not sure if you meant just that, but they certainly use in-house developed SDN stuff. That will at such scale still be "expensive" and "enterprise" tough.