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It's not exactly free money because Amazon will surely reserve that IP for your use at any time. By sitting on Static IPs you are using AWS resources. Yes, oper
by CaveTech 10y ago
It's not exactly free money because Amazon will surely reserve that IP for your use at any time. By sitting on Static IPs you are using AWS resources. Yes, operationally it costs them nothing, but there is an opportunity cost.
- Domenic_S 10y ago> but there is an opportunity cost Is there?
- lucasmullens 10y agoYes. They could sell the IP address to someone else.
- Domenic_S 10y agoBut... they're selling it to you.
- RussianCow 10y agoI think the point is that there's a reason they charge you for it instead of letting you hold onto it for free.
- jedberg 10y agoIt's more valuable to be in use than to sell it to you. They are very limited on ipv4 space, so the charge is really a penalty for keeping that resource from another customer.
- shiftpgdn 10y agoIPv4 allocation limits are still mostly a scare tactic to get people onto v6. I know dozens of people from my webhosting days with /12 and /16 allotments doing nothing that they pay peanuts for. This isn't a unique scenario.
- AdamN 10y agoThat's not relevant, if I have 10 cars and you need a car ... then all that matters to you is that you need a car, not that I have 10 cars sitting there doing nothing. People sitting on IPv4 addresses don't care but new entrants cannot get new IPv4 addresses since they're all allocated.
- Whitestrake 10y ago> This isn't a unique scenario. And this is exactly why we're running out of publically available IPv4 addresses.
- goblin89 10y agoThey aren’t, unless you have an instance attached to it.
- abiox 10y agoyes.