IPv6 availability?

Hey Matt,

Thank you for your feedback. AWS Global Accelerator does not support IPv6 currently. This feature is in our backlog and we have taken note of your request. Various factors affect feature releases, and we are unable to provide specific release times at this point.

Regards,
Marco Cagna

I understand. Thanks for the response.

-Matt

Hello,

Has there been any updates regarding IPv6 support on Global Accelerator?
We're planning to use Global Accelerator, but we have customer demand for IPv6. A rough estimate would really help decide whether to switch from our current cloud provider to AWS.

Thank you!

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out about the status of IPv6 support on AWS Global Accelerator. Currently, AWS Global Accelerator does not support IPv6. This feature is on our development backlog. Various factors affect feature releases, and we are unable to provide specific release timelines at this point.

Thank you,
Aditya

What is the best practice in the mean time?

To enable both ipv6 and ipv4? Or just use ipv4? Will we have clients who simply cannot reach the site with only ipv4 in 2021?

For maximum availability, I presume both must be enabled - but that damages the benefit of the accelerator.

I am doing that and seeing about 50% of traffic bypassing the global accelerator and using ipv6.

Thank you for your question. Currently, AWS Global Accelerator supports only IPv4 traffic. In the meantime, if you have a dual-stack endpoint serving both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, you would be able to use AWS Global Accelerator to only accelerate the traffic for IPv4 clients. The IPv6 clients would have to connect directly to the dual-stack endpoint instead of the AWS Global Accelerator IP addresses. However, as you mentioned, the IPv6 traffic will not get the performance benefits from AWS Global Accelerator. Please drop us a note at global-accelerator-pm@amazon.com with your current architecture and use case and we would be able to provide additional recommendations based on your architecture.

Our company is looking for IPv6 support as well.

We use Global Accelerator for the root domain due to static IP requirement and cloudfront for the subdomains. The site access is controlled by IP sets. due to GA not supporting IPv6 we have ask the users both IPv6 and IPv4 to whitelist.

I know I can disable IPv6 on cloudfront and its not the solution to the problem.

Just wondering if there's a rough ETA on IPv6 availability.

Now 3 years later IPv6 is becoming a more urgent requirement (e.g. governments require it) and lack thereof a bit of an embarrassment to be honest. With "This feature is in our backlog" is it now planned for the foreseeable future?

Looking forward to the original question, quoted above, getting answered :).

They have finally added ipv6 support for global accelerator: https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-global-accelerator-internet-protocol-version-6-ipv6-support/