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Re: AWS Elastic IP architecture


From: Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 17:33:55 -0700

On Monday, June 1, 2015, Tony Hain <alh-ietf () tndh net> wrote:

Hugo  Slabbert wrote:
snip

On this given point, though: Facebook -ne generic hosting platform

True, but it does represent a business decision to choose IPv6. The
relevant
point here is that the "NEXT" facebook/twitter/snapchat/... is likely being
pushed by clueless investors into outsourcing their infrastructure to
AWS/Azure/Google-cloud. This will prevent them from making the same
business
decision about system efficiency and long term growth that Facebook made
due
to decisions made by the cloud service operator.


This is the exact case for www.duckduckgo.com.  They were ipv6, moved to
aws, and lost support , no aaaa today

To be honest, $dayjob may be next to lose ipv6 if / when www goes to the
cloud



From my perspective, most of this conversation has centered on the needs of
the service, and tried very hard to ignore the needs of the customer
despite
Owen and others repeatedly raising the point. While the needs of the
service
do impact the cost of delivery, a broken service is still broken.
Personally
I would consider "free" to be overpriced for a broken service, but maybe
that is just me.

In any case, if the VM interface doesn't present what looks like a native
IPv6 service to the application developer, IPv6 usage will be curtailed and
IPv4 growing pains will continue to get worse.

Tony




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