[rpd] IPv6 and some cloud providers

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ]

I guess there are two main reasons why AWS and Azure still need to keep buying IPv4 addresses:
1) They need to provide dual-stack, because they can't be sure in advance if customers will be using IPv4 or IPv6. And this is customer by customer, so IP for every customer or so. Otherwise they need to provision special rules for each incoming port that every customer need and probably the cost to do so is higher than just buying IPv4 addresses. At some point they will just automate it (but then the customer needs to be able to configure each specific port, instead of the standard ones), and/or they will offer a lower price for customers that only require IPv6.
2) Similar to the previous one. They can't use IPv6-only (example SIIT-DC) because the need to support incoming connections to each standard port for every customer. This will make also the provisioning of the DC more expensive than just dual-stack.

In fact, 1 above, is already a reality. There are several cloud and VPS providers that are much cheaper if you only need IPv6!

Regards,
Jordi
@jordipalet
 
 

El 31/5/20 14:25, "Willy Manga" <mangawilly at gmail.com> escribió:

    Hi Noah,

    On 31/05/2020 11:27, Noah wrote:
    >[...]
    > Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure) and others alike for instance have been
    > buying so much IPv4 space in recent years from this transfer markets.

    I cannot argue the contrary, BUT they also have a considerable amount of
    IPv6 resources.
    Whenever it is possible, you will see IPv6 packets along the path
    instead of IPv4.

    Now, the challenge is most of the time ... their customers. They can use
    IPv6 in their panel, but are they using it?

    My point is, strictly speaking of these 2 cloud providers (but you will
    find many others like this) , they do their job regarding IPv6. They
    have it available and ready to use.

    What if we (name any ISP) just start ourselves ?


    P.S. The anniversary of world IPv6 world launch day is coming this week.
    Lets give some love to IPv6 folks :)

    -- 
    Willy Manga
    @ongolaboy
    https://ongola.blogspot.com/

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