AWS Announces New Public IPv4 Address Charges and Pushes IPv6 Adoption
Starting February 1, 2024, AWS will charge $0.005 per hour for each public IPv4 address across all services to manage scarce IPv4 resources, encourage IPv6 migration, and introduce a Public IP Insights tool for better usage monitoring.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that beginning February 1, 2024 it will charge $0.005 per hour for each public IPv4 address, regardless of whether the address is attached to a service, as part of a broader effort to manage scarce IPv4 resources and encourage IPv6 adoption.
This policy follows the exhaustion of the global IPv4 pool, which was fully allocated by 2019, and reflects rising costs for acquiring IPv4 addresses, which have increased over 300% in the past five years.
AWS will apply the charge across all services—including EC2, RDS, and EKS—and all regions, but customers using BYOIP (Bring Your Own IP) or the free tier for the first 12 months will not be billed.
To help users monitor usage, AWS introduced a new Public IP Insights tool that provides visibility, sorting, and filtering of public IPv4 address consumption.
The move also aims to accelerate IPv6 deployment, though adoption remains slow due to ecosystem readiness and compatibility challenges.
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