AWS Elastic IP architecture

Sun May 31 13:40:10 UTC 2015

I wasn’t being specific about VPC vs. Classic.

The support for IPv6 in Classic is extremely limited and basically useless for 99+% of applications.

I would argue that there is, therefore, effectively no meaningful support for IPv6 in AWS, period.

What you describe below seems to me that it would only make the situation I described worse, not better in the VPC world.

Owen

> On May 31, 2015, at 4:23 AM, Andras Toth <diosbejgli at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Congratulations for missing the point Matt, when I sent my email
> (which by the way went for moderation) there wasn't a discussion about
> Classic vs VPC yet. The discussion was "no ipv6 in AWS" which is not
> true as I mentioned in my previous email. I did not state it works
> everywhere, but it does work.
> 
> In fact as Owen mentioned the following, I assumed he is talking about
> Classic because this statement is only true there. In VPC you can
> define your own IP subnets and it can overlap with other customers, so
> basically everyone can have their own 10.0.0.0/24 for example.
> "They are known to be running multiple copies of RFC-1918 in disparate
> localities already. In terms of scale, modulo the nightmare that must
> make of their management network and the fragility of what happens
> when company A in datacenter A wants to talk to company A in
> datacenter B and they both have the same 10-NET addresses"
> 
> Andras
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 01:38:05AM +1000, Andras Toth wrote:
>>> Perhaps if that energy which was spent on raging, instead was spent on
>>> a Google search, then all those words would've been unnecessary.
>>> 
>>> Official documentation:
>>> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-internet-facing-load-balancers.html#internet-facing-ip-addresses
>> 
>> Congratulations, you've managed to find exactly the same info as Owen
>> already covered:
>> 
>> "Load balancers in a VPC support IPv4 addresses only."
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> "Load balancers in EC2-Classic support both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses."
>> 
>> - Matt
>> 