AWS Elastic IP architecture

Mon Jun 1 23:20:11 UTC 2015

Hugo  Slabbert wrote:
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> 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.

>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