IPv6 availability?

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Just wondering if there's a rough ETA on IPv6 availability. I'm assuming it's either planned or was tentatively-planned at some point as there's a disabled drop-down box with IPv4 pre-selected.

Use case is typical websites: since some clients send an AAAA request 25ms or so before attempting an A record, IPv6 would be nice to have.

Ideally the set-up here would provide at least a couple public-facing Anycast IPv6 addresses within the accelerator, and simply route them through to the IPv4 elastic IPs. For flexibility though I suppose 3 options in the dropdown might be useful: IPv4, IPv6, IPv4+IPv6.

Thanks.

asked 5 years ago449 views
9 Answers
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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

AWS
answered 5 years ago
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I understand. Thanks for the response.

-Matt

answered 5 years ago
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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!

Cgt
answered 3 years ago
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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

answered 3 years ago
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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.

answered 3 years ago
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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.

answered 3 years ago
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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.

miyuru
answered 3 years ago
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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 :).

answered 2 years ago
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answered 2 years ago

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