How to avoid public ipv4 address

Question

So I had the notification about charges for public IPV4 addresses and I've been thrashing around for ways to avoid the new cost.

Here's what I have now:

1. A t4g.micro EC2 instance managed through Elastic Beanstalk
2. The instance provides a external web interface
3. The instance connects to other AWS services including DynamoDB and SES

Now it seems that:

1. Elastic Beanstalk environments need internet access (creation fails on a VPC without an internet gateway)
2. If I create an IPV6-only VPC, the instances will not be able to connect to all AWS services since many are not IPV6 enabled
3. I looked at Cloudfront but that communicates with origins using IPV4 only
4. Any approach to connecting a private VPC to the internet and other AWS services (such as a NAT gateway) is considerably more expensive that keeping the public IPV4 address

So unless I am missing something, for this requirement there is no way to avoid the public IPV4 address and the associated charge.  If so, disappointed that AWS does not provide a working migration path.

Answer

I've done some more testing. It seems impossible to use Elastic Beanstalk without either a public IPv4 address or other more expensive solutions such as PrivateLink or NAT Gateways. You can set up gateway endpoints from an IPv6 VPC but these support S3 and DynamoDB only.

Any other hints, anyone?

Answer

AWS doesn't intend there to be a way to avoid this charge, they themselves say that the purpose of it is to try and dissuade IPv4 usage and drive IPv6 adoption https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights/

> intended to encourage you to be a bit more frugal with your use of public IPv4 addresses and to think about accelerating your adoption of IPv6

I would imagine that pretty much everybody who posts on here will be affected by it one way or another, and as we get closer to February 1st the amount of discussion around it on here will increase.

Answer

Yes of course I understand that.  My problem is that AWS is *not* providing the what I need to fully adopt IPv6.  Many AWS services are not IPv6 enabled so if I want to avoid a public EC2 IPv4 address I have to use a NAT gateway which is considerably more expensive.

I could avoid a public IPv4 address by using API gateway with HTTP forwarding to an EC2 instance via a VPC link, but if the instance itself cannot access the AWS services it needs then that approach seems unworkable.

How to avoid public ipv4 address

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