January 2024
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Removing AWS EC2 IPv4 Addresses
In July 2023, AWS announced they will charge for IPv4 addresses starting 1 February 2024. The new charge will be the same as the existing charge for an idle IP: $0.005 per hour; slightly over $40 per year per IP address. If you’re running some small T2 or T3 instances for general-purpose workloads, this could increase your monthly cost somewhere between 20–40%. The EC2 free tier will include 750 hours of usage for 12 months, so a single IPv4 address should be pretty much free for that time, but if you’ve exhausted the free tier or have multiple IP addresses, this charge will start to appear very soon.