[seligman99]

$0.005 per hour per IP.

Assuming AWS has 50% utilization on IPs they've assigned for EC2, this is a $1.28 billion/yr fee they created.

Scale is fun.

[overstay8930]

Extra scandalous too since stuff like load balancers will use a bunch of IPv4 addresses that they can now charge extra for, with no way to avoid the fees since you can't turn off IPv4.

[chrisbolt]

That’s also assuming that adding the fee with 6 months of notice won’t make people reduce their IP address usage to avoid the fee.

[kubota]

Jeff will be able to commission another sculpture for his yacht.