Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    All it takes is one big company like Amazon changing their services to IPv6-only and most of the world would be converted over in a month or two… but now I guess we know the reason WHY Amazon doesn’t push such a policy.

    • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      A massive swathe of current gen devices don’t even support it.

      It won’t be a month.

      Microsoft announce changes much smaller than that 4 years out and still have to give extensions.

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        1 year ago

        Like what though?

        The last thing I have that doesn’t support ipv4 from the hardware level is my Nintendo DS.

        Everything else has the hardware capability, it’s just never used or enabled in the software by default.

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          1 year ago

          it’s just never used or enabled in the software by default

          …and most people who own those devices have never heard of IPv6 and don’t know how to enable it. They just won’t be able to access your website. If Amazon dropped support for IPv4, there wouldn’t be anything i’d be able to do to deal with the fall out. I’m not going to send a technician to every single home of every customer I have. What I could (and would) do is move all my stuff off Amazon.