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RIPE is one of five regional Internet registries that manage allocations for their respective regions, and all of them have announced the exhaustion of their pools of available address blocks of various sizes at various times over several years, as you would expect. Which of these announcements do you think weren’t serious?

> all of them have announced the exhaustion of their pools of available address blocks of various sizes at various times over several years

AFRINIC has not exhausted IPv4 yet, although they are coming close to the beginning of the end (when they're down to their last /11).

> a lot of blocks to be returned to the pool

Nobody is returning addresses back to any pool. IPs are being allocated at a rate of over a million a month.

And cloud providers don't need IP addresses?

Not all of them: https://ipv6onlyhosting.com/en-us/cms/ipv6-shop/