Tag: IPv6

Today we are announcing two new capabilities for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) NAT gateway and Amazon Route 53, allowing your IPv6-only workloads to transparently communicate with IPV4-only services. Curious? Read on; I have details for you. Some of you are running very large workloads involving tens of thousands of virtual machines, containers, or […]

Starting today, you can deploy applications that use IPv6 address space on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Many of our customers are standardizing Kubernetes as their compute infrastructure platform for cloud and on-premises applications. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy containerized workloads. It provides highly available clusters and automates […]

We’ve been working to add IPv6 support to many different parts of AWS over the last couple of years, starting with Elastic Load Balancing, AWS IoT Core, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Web Application Firewall, and S3 Transfer Acceleration, all building up to last month’s announcement of IPv6 support for EC2 […]

Update (7/13/2017): Since this post was published, IPv6 supported has been extended and now supports 15 Regions and Multiple AWS Services. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. In accord with a mandate that dates back to 2010, […]

Update October 1, 2021 – This post has been edited to remove outdated S3 buckets. As a follow-up to our recent announcement of IPv6 support for Amazon S3, I am happy to be able to tell you that IPv6 support is now available for Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, and AWS Web Application Firewall […]

Update October 1, 2021 – This post has been edited to remove outdated S3 buckets. As you probably know, every server and device that is connected to the Internet must have a unique IP address. Way back in 1981, RFC 791 (“Internet Protocol”) defined an IP address as a 32-bit entity, with three distinct network […]