Release: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on 2010-09-19
Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC now support tags, which are metadata you can optionally assign to your VPC resources such as subnets.
Release Date: September 19, 2010
Latest Version: 2010-08-31
Created On: September 16, 2010
Last Updated: October 09, 2017
These release notes provide a summary of all New Features, Resolved Issues, and Known Issues in this version of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
New Features
The following table describes the new features in this release.
| Feature | Description |
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New API Version |
With this release, Amazon EC2 has a new API version (2010-08-31). The WSDL is at http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-08-31/AmazonEC2.wsdl. |
| Tags |
Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC now support tags, which are metadata you can optionally assign to your VPC resources such as subnets. There are three new API actions for managing your EC2 tags:CreateTags, DescribeTags, and DeleteTags.
The API tools have corresponding new commands: ec2-create-tags, ec2-describe-tags, and ec2-delete-tags. To get the latest version of the API tools, go to Amazon EC2 API Tools. The AWS Management Console now also supports tags, but only for resources you can manage on the Amazon EC2 tab of the console.
For more information, see Using Tags in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide. |
| Changes to Filters for "describe" operations | When you use the “Describe” operations for VPC (e.g., DescribeSubnets), you can use filters to limit the results. With the 2010-08-31 release, we've added some new filters and slightly changed the names of some of the existing filters. We've also added filtering for ec2-describe-dhcp-options and DescribeDhcpOptions. For more information go to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Command Line Reference or the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud API Reference. |
Known Issues
The following table describes known issues in this release.
| Issue | Description |
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Current Limitations |
During the Amazon VPC public beta:
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| No Direct Internet Access from a VPC | Any VPC traffic to/from the Internet must currently route through the established VPN connection and through your existing IT infrastructure to the public Internet. You are currently unable to send/receive Internet traffic directly from your VPC. |
| Unsupported AWS Services Only Accessible Via VPN Connection | Amazon VPC allows you to deploy Amazon EC2 instances within your VPC. Resources provided by services such as Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, and others can't currently be deployed within your VPC, and, as such, are only accessible to resources within your VPC via the VPN connection, through your network, and to the respective service's public endpoint. You may need to create firewall exceptions to allow cloud-based instances to access the Internet (and possibly NAT) from your existing IT infrastructure. |
| Broadcast and Multicast Unsupported in a VPC | You are unable to employ either broadcast or multicast within your VPC. |
| Increased Latency in Bundling Linux/UNIX S3-Backed AMIs | You may experience increased latency in bundling Linux/UNIX AMIs within Amazon VPC. Such bundles are transferred from the instance, through the VPN connection, through your network and to the public Amazon S3 endpoint. You may need to create firewall exceptions to allow cloud-based instances to access the Internet (and possibly NAT) from your existing IT infrastructure." |
| Service Currently Available in One Availability Zone | Currently your VPC, subnets, VPN gateway, and any instances you launch in the VPC must all reside in a single Availability Zone in the us-east-1, or in the eu-west-1 region. |
| Traffic Sent to Overlapping IP Address Ranges Is Dropped | If your VPC's IP address range overlaps with an IP address range in use within your existing IT infrastructure, Amazon VPC will drop any traffic to said range. To avoid this, create your VPC so it does not overlap with current or expected future subnets in your network. |
| Ordering of DHCP Option Values Not Guaranteed | When you specify DHCP options, some options (e.g., DNS servers) accept multiple values. The ordering of these values is not guaranteed. After creating the options, you should use the DescribeDhcpOptions operation (or the ec2-describe-dhcp-options command) to confirm the order in which the options will be delivered to instances. |
| Amazon EC2 Capabilities Currently Unavailable within Amazon VPC | The following Amazon EC2 features are currently not available for use with a VPC:
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| Configuration Changes for Windows Server 2008 AMIs | If you've created your own Windows Server 2008 AMIs from Amazon's Windows Server 2008 base images prior to v1.02, you need to make a couple of changes to your existing configuration in order to activate your instances' licensing when launching in a VPC. In some cases, you might need to make changes for v1.02 as well, depending on your needs.
Manually Locate VPC Activation Endpoints If you want to launch a Windows Server 2008 AMI in a VPC, you must manually set the Windows Activation endpoint in your instance if either of the following conditions are true:
The activation IP address for VPC instances are:
To set the endpoint manually, execute the following commands from the command line: Slmgr.vbs /skms 169.254.169.250 Slmgr.vbs /ato Update Ec2Config Service Settings If you're using an AMI that was created from an Amazon public Windows Server 2008 image prior to v1.02, then you should also make a change to one of the Activation Settings files in the Ec2Config service to reflect the new discovery hierarchy, which includes the preceding endpoints for VPC activation. To make this change, overwrite the file
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