I'm not sure IoT is the best use of a contiguous IPv4 range... you're talking about less than 17 million addresses. Depending on how much it actually cost I fe

I'm not sure IoT is the best use of a contiguous IPv4 range... you're talking about less than 17 million addresses. Depending on how much it actually cost I feel like it could be a number of things from simple branding to nefarious traffic shaping. If you're an AWS shop maybe they want you to be able to set simple bypass/static route for 3.0.0.0/8.