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		mgaunard on Aug 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses Anything in the cloud is 10 times the price it's worth. It's essentially a tax on the people gullible enough to believe in cloud tech or unable to set up real hardware.

yuppie_scum on Aug 4, 2023 [–]

Well next time you get that big customer that scales your traffic by 500%, enjoy sitting around waiting for Dell to ship you a bunch of servers or whatever while we just change an integer in a repo and hit terraform apply.

mgaunard on Aug 4, 2023 | [–]

While you could make a case that it is convenient short-term, it is very cost-ineffective.

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