AWS New Price Change for Public IPv4 Addresses

AWS recently announced that starting from February 2024, they will be charging for public IPv4 addresses.

The new charge will be applicable across all AWS regions and services, including EC2 instances, RDS database instances, EKS nodes and other service-managed public IPv4 addresses, such as internet-facing ELB, NAT gateways and AWS Global Accelerators. At 0.005 USD per hour, the price hike will add 43.8 USD per year for every IP address.

To encourage the transition to IPv6 and the best use of public IPv4 addresses, AWS cost and usage reports will now include public IPv4 address usage.

AWS also launched Public IP Insights, a new feature of VPC IP Address Manager, providing a breakdown of public IP types and EIP usage.