Anyone know what's the biggest hold up of IPv6 on AWS side? They must be working on this for years, but never heard of any push or beta program at all.
.. or they haven't .. VPC gives you your own entire rfc1918 space per region, which tho can be a pain to deal with overlap if you have site-to-site VPN, is enough for basically anyone.
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#12Many users aren't even aware of this, though, because the number of consumer-grade routers that support IPv6 is very small. I think that the Apple Airport may be one of the few, along with a few higher-end Linksys/Cisco ones (although lots of $100+ Linksys units don't, and they seem to be in absolutely no hurry to implement it via firmware updates -- I'm sure they see it as an opportunity to sell new hardware in a few years).
Consumers don't know to look for "IPv6" as a feature when they're buying a router, and so as a result Linksys et al don't bother to include it, and so even though a user might have a fully IPv6-capable uplink, there's no way to use it short of plugging their computer directly into their modem.
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#14https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
IPv6 adoption is already at the point where it is relevant to your security checks. If IPv6 clients are exempt from your security, that is a problem right now.
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#15Until that point almost everyone is going to be dual stack.
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#16Google currently gets 9% of their traffic over IPv6: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html IPv6 adoption is already at the point where it is relevant to your security checks. If IPv6 clients are exempt from your security, that is a problem right now.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
.. or they haven't .. VPC gives you your own entire rfc1918 space per region, which tho can be a pain to deal with overlap if you have site-to-site VPN, is enough for basically anyone.
Well, public services are not. ELB for example. If AWS continues to grow, I think they will eventually exhaust their IPv4 blocks and this is an issue they can't ignore.
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#18Would IPv6 addresses mean scraping would be easier?
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#19Anyone know what's the biggest hold up of IPv6 on AWS side? They must be working on this for years, but never heard of any push or beta program at all.
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#20Applications are the key driver. I could see this if IOT really takes off - autoconfiguration and unique addressing are the attributes that would make IPv6 the only compelling choice. That said, IOT still has a ton of challenges.