AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: John Dwyer
John is a senior solutions architect supporting US federal civilian customers at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has extensive experience architecting and building serverless applications at scale with customers in the commercial and public sectors. He specializes in serverless and DevOps on AWS.
Mitigating inadvertent IPv6 prefix advertisement with AWS automation
As federal agencies migrate to the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 framework, they will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to exit to the internet, bypassing the TIC network. This transition requires agencies to plan and coordinate migration activities to verify seamless IPv6 connectivity. Agencies need to coordinate advertising their IPv6 prefixes with AWS, using mechanisms like Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP). The migration process could involve changes in routing policies, firewall rules, and security controls to accommodate the IPv6 prefix changes. Read this post to learn more.