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 <diosbej...@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 <mpal...@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 >>
