Why IPv6?
IPv6 usage is growing every year and becoming the default in many new network configurations. Being an IPv6 leader gives you experience to manage and deliver applications on modern networks. AWS allows you to design and deploy a global environment that leverages end-to-end IPv6 connectivity. You can host applications in dual stack and IPv6-only virtual networking environments and provide connectivity over IPv6 across Amazon VPCs and to and from the internet. We have supported IPv6 on AWS since 2011, and as of 2021 have IPv6-only capabilities like IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances, NAT gateways that support IPv6 to IPv4 translation, Elastic Load Balancers with IPv6 targets, Amazon EKS IPv6 support and more. These features allow you to deliver business outcomes by building highly scalable architectures on IPv6 while maintaining backwards compatibility with your existing IPv4 workloads.
Benefits
Use cases
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Netflix
IPv6 adoption in the internal network enabled the full IP reachability Netflix needed across the thousands of VPCs without the need for Network Address Translation. Also, the Egress-only Internet Gateway helped maintain the private subnets security posture.
Enabling IPv6 across the Netflix streaming platform in AWS enabled continued hyperscale growth, scalability and innovation.
Donavan Fritz, Senior Network SRE - Netflix -
IMDb
A homegrown solution using Amazon EC2, API Gateway, AWS Step Functions and Lambda, provided a dual stack front-end and a translation layer that allowed us to maintain our IPv4 only private backend during this expansion.
We were able to expand our reach in the US market to 3x users by dialing up IMDbTV to successfully onboard IPv6-only connected devices.
Amy Lee, Manager Software Development - IMDbTV -
Aroundhome
We have enabled IPv6 on our load balancers (ALB) and Cloudfront distributions so customers can already reach our services through IPv6. It turned out to be a very smooth process without any hiccups.
Within a short amount of time we were able to report nearly 40 percent of our customer traffic to be IPv6
Hendrik Bergunde, Team Lead Technology - Aroundhome
Whats New
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Blogs and Announcements
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Blayze Stefaniak, Ashish Kumar, Natti Swaminathan, Yogesh Patel, 10/31/2024
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Tushar Jagdale, Neha Shetty, Varun Mehta, 07/05/2024
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Tushar Jagdale, Nick Kniveton, 05/22/2024
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Anbu Kumar Krishnamurthy, Tom Adamski, 03/19/2024
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Vivek Kumar, Jordan Rojas Garcia, 11/07/2023