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Finally! It's been a major deficiency in AWS. Can't wait to see this roll out to us-west-2.

by axyjo 10y ago

franksunjin 10y ago
Its already out, you can launch a ipv6 instance now
- cperciva 10y ago
  It's available in the Ohio region, but not in us-west-2 or any of the other regions.
loganbertram 10y ago
Do they have an official roll-out schedule yet?
vacri 10y ago
s/AWS/everywhere but Google/
- profmonocle 10y ago
  Google's public services are fully dual-stack, but Compute Engine doesn't support IPv6 at all.
  - vacri 10y ago
    I was more thinking of the ip6 wall of shame than VPS providers, really... Strange that GCE doesn't support it, given their usage elsewhere.
djsumdog 10y ago
I'm kinda sick of all the AWS posts on here, but I'm trying to be fair since some of them are really interesting. This is one of those that's more of a "about damn time," features that'd I'd care about if I already didn't go with Digital Ocean/Linode instead just because of IPv6 support.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 10y ago
  The reason there are all these posts in the last few days is because AWS's conference re:Invent is going right now in Las Vegas, and a lot of these announcements are therefore being made right now.
- harryh 10y ago
  Just curious but why is IPv6 support such a priority for you that it would be the deciding factor in your choice of hosting provider?
  - jsmthrowaway 10y ago
    In 2017, one should instead ask why it wouldn't be.
    - noahm 10y ago
      Or, to elaborate a little further, https://www.iab.org/2016/11/07/iab-statement-on-ipv6/ https://www.iab.org/2016/11/07/iab-statement-on-ipv6/
    - harryh 10y ago
      Because there are many other factors in choosing a hosting provider (price, performance, features, security, scalability, etc). It seems a bit weird that all of these would be less important to someone than IPv6. Though I guess I can imagine that for some businesses it could be hugely important. Was just wondering what OPs business was that it became an overriding priority.
      - Sanddancer 10y ago
        Rolling out an IPv4 only stack right now is debt. IPv6 has finally hit the point where there's no longer an if portion to the question, but rather a when. Every server rolled out in an IPv4 only setup, every service built, etc, is one more potentially service-interrupting area that will have to be changed when port your stack to IPv6. If you're young and small, starting as IPv6 native means that the next few years you'll have an advantage over your competitors because they'll be thinking migrations while you're thinking about growing your business.

Finally! It's been a major deficiency in AWS. Can't wait to see this roll out to us-west-2.

by axyjo 10y ago

Finally! It's been a major deficiency in AWS. Can't wait to see this roll out to us-west-2.

franksunjin 10y ago

Its already out, you can launch a ipv6 instance now

cperciva 10y ago
It's available in the Ohio region, but not in us-west-2 or any of the other regions.

loganbertram 10y ago

Do they have an official roll-out schedule yet?

vacri 10y ago

s/AWS/everywhere but Google/

profmonocle 10y ago
Google's public services are fully dual-stack, but Compute Engine doesn't support IPv6 at all.
- vacri 10y ago
  I was more thinking of the ip6 wall of shame than VPS providers, really... Strange that GCE doesn't support it, given their usage elsewhere.

djsumdog 10y ago

I'm kinda sick of all the AWS posts on here, but I'm trying to be fair since some of them are really interesting. This is one of those that's more of a "about damn time," features that'd I'd care about if I already didn't go with Digital Ocean/Linode instead just because of IPv6 support.

kinkrtyavimoodh 10y ago
The reason there are all these posts in the last few days is because AWS's conference re:Invent is going right now in Las Vegas, and a lot of these announcements are therefore being made right now.
harryh 10y ago
Just curious but why is IPv6 support such a priority for you that it would be the deciding factor in your choice of hosting provider?
- jsmthrowaway 10y ago
  In 2017, one should instead ask why it wouldn't be.
  - noahm 10y ago
    Or, to elaborate a little further, https://www.iab.org/2016/11/07/iab-statement-on-ipv6/ https://www.iab.org/2016/11/07/iab-statement-on-ipv6/
  - harryh 10y ago
    Because there are many other factors in choosing a hosting provider (price, performance, features, security, scalability, etc). It seems a bit weird that all of these would be less important to someone than IPv6. Though I guess I can imagine that for some businesses it could be hugely important. Was just wondering what OPs business was that it became an overriding priority.
    - Sanddancer 10y ago
      Rolling out an IPv4 only stack right now is debt. IPv6 has finally hit the point where there's no longer an if portion to the question, but rather a when. Every server rolled out in an IPv4 only setup, every service built, etc, is one more potentially service-interrupting area that will have to be changed when port your stack to IPv6. If you're young and small, starting as IPv6 native means that the next few years you'll have an advantage over your competitors because they'll be thinking migrations while you're thinking about growing your business.