Just a quick post to let anyone that hasn't already seen know, Amazon has decided to begin taxing^archive the use of IPv4 addresses across its entire service portfolio, starting in February 2024. Regrettably, as of time of writing, this site is still backed by AWS, but that is scheduled to change in early 2024 (when the last of my prepaid services in AWS expire). Luckily for me, due to a combination^archive of factors^archive over the last several^archive years, I had already put myself on a path to extricate Amazon from all aspects of my life and so, for once, I shouldn't have to deal with any of the fallout of this decision, but I do feel sympathy for anyone that has built extensive personal infrastructure in AWS (fuck for-profits; they can lie in the bed they made if they chose to get in that bed with Amazon). Those IPv4 taxes will add up quick at ~$3.60/mo/addr for anyone with more than a handful of addresses in use. As I move myself to other providers I'll try to remember to take notes and share any insights that others may find valuable in making a similar change. If I don't post on the topic by the end of Q1 2024 and you're interested in my thoughts, my name in this site's footer is a link to the email address for this blog.

I could go on a rant about how I think this is just Amazon - a company that knows it's presently impractical to reach a broad audience without the use of IPv4 - taking it upon themselves to "help" IPv6 adoption by helping themselves to your money, but honestly I don't have the energy. Sit down, have a think for yourself, and draw your own conclusions, but suffice it to say, this looks to me like nothing more than a transparent attempt to cash in on the final years or (hopefully not) decades of widespread IPv4 use by a shit heel capitalist institution.