Dear Sir or Madam,
As you are probably aware from various reports in the media, the number of available IPv4
addresses continues to drop drastically on a global level. In Europe, the pool of available
addresses has already been completely allocated. We shall also not be receiving any further
IPv4 addresses from the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, Reseaux IP Europeens (RIPE).
As demand for IPv4 addresses continues to remain very high, we are forced to tighten
restrictions as regards both their use and allocation to clients.
For additionally allocated IPv4 addresses and subnets, we are obliged to introduce a new
pricing model for both existing and new orders.
As a first step from 1 March 2013, additional single IPs which are to be used in addition
to the Main IP will be charged at a price of 1 euro per month. This excludes the additional
IP address required for the chargeable KVM-over-IP Remote Management Option. The change affects
existing clients, who have obtained IP addresses without additional charge. Nothing changes for
clients who are already being charged for additional single IPs.
Furthermore, adjustments in the monthly price for regular and failover subnets will take place.
Clients who are affected here are those who have up to now received subnets free-of-charge or
at favorable rates.
From 1 March, the price will change for /29 subnets which have already been allocated to
clients. Prices for larger subnets for existing contracts will be adjusted in the months
following, so as to provide clients who have correspondingly larger nets with a little more
time to prepare for consolidation of the nets.
The following overview serves to clarify the introduction of the pricing adjustment as well
as the future conditions:
Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,
We are excited to announce support for hosting static websites on Amazon S3 at the root domain. Visitors to your website can now easily and reliably access your site from their browser without specifying “www” in the web address (e.g. “example.com”). Many customers already host static websites on Amazon S3 that are accessible via a “www” subdomain (e.g. “www.example.com”). Previously, to support root domain access, you needed to run your own web server to proxy root domain requests from browsers to your website on S3. Running a web server to proxy requests introduces additional costs, operational burden, and another potential point of failure. Now, you can take advantage of S3’s high availability and durability for both “www” and root domain addresses.
To get started, open the Amazon S3 Management Console, and follow these simple steps:
1. Create an S3 bucket with the same name as your “www” subdomain (e.g. “www.example.com”). This is the bucket where your web content will be kept. Within the “Static Website Hosting” tab, choose “Website hosting enabled” (see our documentation for configuring website hosting for a bucket). Click “Save.”
2. Create another S3 bucket with the same name as your root domain (e.g. “example.com”). Within the “Static Website Hosting” tab, choose “Redirect all requests to another host name”. In the input box, enter the name of your “www” subdomain (e.g. “www.example.com”) and click “Save.” This ensures that end users that access your website by typing “example.com” will be redirected to content in your “www” subdomain bucket.
3. Register your DNS with Amazon Route 53. Within the Amazon Route 53 Management Console, create a new hosted zone for your root domain (e.g. “example.com”). Create a new record set of Type “A – Ipv4 address.” Select “Yes” for Alias and then choose the value that corresponds to your root domain name. See our walkthrough for more information on setting DNS records and using Route 53.
For more information on hosting your static website on Amazon S3 and support for hosting websites at the root domain, review our walkthrough in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.
Sincerely, The Amazon S3 Team
