Nice to see they get backroom deals for about 0.15% of the ip addresses on the internet, AND massive discounts.
A volume discount isn't a backroom deal. Unless you think for some reason the group that controls 44.0.0.0/8 is beholden to Amazon or big tech for some reason.
No, but the deal itself is certainly extremely suspect and with a total lack of transparency for a supposedly public resource.
Except we will never actually know...
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We will know because they will have to report the income on their public tax return.