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It's trivial to get new IP4 addresses on AWS and Rackspace. I guess it depends on the company. Microsoft's Azure does a weird thing where instances all share th
by leorocky 12y ago
It's trivial to get new IP4 addresses on AWS and Rackspace. I guess it depends on the company. Microsoft's Azure does a weird thing where instances all share the same IP but are accessible via different ports when in a group.
- aroch 12y agoDepends on the RIR that assigned your block. RIPE For example requires you provide a technical reason, AWS gets around this by saying that technically every instance could have an SSL certificate and thus should have it own IP for compatibility reasons. RIPE will and has reclaimed /24's and /16's from LIRs who didn't follow their guidelines (tl;dr of which is "must be a technical limitation of IP sharing")
- justincormack 12y agoSo they could recall most of Amazon's IPs due to lack of SSL? Fun to watch!
- yuhong 12y agoAnd XP is already out of support and Server 2003 will next year. When will Amazon AWS end support?