AWS Update Now Available in 15 Regions

Amazon Web Services has reportedly been working to add IPv6 support to various parts of their platform for a few years and on Wednesday, announced that it’s now available in 15 regions.

The tech giant has unveiled multiple updates to its platform thus far, including: Elastic Load Balancing, AWS IoT, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and S3 Transfer Acceleration. And last month, IPv6 support for EC2 instances in Virtual Private Clouds was unveiled, but according to AWS’s blog, only those in the US East (Ohio) Region) were able to use it.

However, as of Wednesday, IPv6 support for EC2 instances in VPCs is now up for grabs in 15 regions. And customers in nine of those 15 will have access to Application Load Balancer support for IPv6, according to AWS.

Users are now able to create and deploy apps that can utilize IPv6 addresses to pass information to servers, load balancers, content distribution services and object storage. Plus with the new guidelines for IPv6 support from Apple and other providers, mobile apps are now able to use IPv6 addresses in communications with AWS.

IPv6 support for EC2 instances is now available in the following areas:

• US East (Northern Virginia)
• US East (Ohio)
• US West (Northern California)
• US West (Oregon)
• South America (São Paulo)
• Canada (Central)
• EU (Ireland)
• EU (Frankfurt)
• EU (London)
• Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
• Asia Pacific (Singapore)
• Asia Pacific (Seoul)
• Asia Pacific (Sydney)
• Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
• AWS GovCloud (US)

Users can enable IPv6 from the AWS Management Console when producing a new VPC, according to AWS.

And when it comes to Application Load Balancers, those in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), South America (São Paulo), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are now offering support for IPv6 in dual-stack mode, meaning they can be reached using IPv4 or IPv6. The tech giant says they plan to add support for the various other regions not listed over the next few weeks.

“Simply enable the dualstack option when you configure the ALB and then make sure that your security groups allow or deny IPv6 traffic in accord with your requirements,” according to an AWS blog.

The blog went on to say, “You can also enable this option by running the set-ip-address-type command or by making a call to the SetIpAddressType function. To learn more about this new feature, read the Load Balancer Address Type documentation.”

For a recap of previous IPv6 launches made in the run up to this launch, or more information, head over to AWS’ blog post by clicking here.