IPv6 Success Stories: AWS

At the ARIN 51 Public Policy and Members Meeting in April 2023, a panel of five community members who have contributed to the IPv6 case studies on our blog or have other IPv6 deployment experience joined us for a compelling and informative discussion moderated by ARIN President and CEO John Curran. In this IPv6 Success Stories series we’re highlighting the experiences, insights, lessons learned, and tips for successful IPv6 deployment shared by those panelists.

Facilitating Customers' IPv6 Goals

To kick off the IPv6 Success Stories panel, each panelist gave a short presentation to share the history, status, and impact of IPv6 at their organization, what other organizations can learn from their experience, and more to help others take the next steps in their IPv6 journeys.

Madhura Kale, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Principal Product Manager Network & Compute, provided a background of what IPv6 on AWS means. AWS — which provides infrastructure that allows different businesses and organizations to build IPv6 — launched IPv6 on its Elastic Load Balancer in 2011 and then began introducing additional IPv6 support with more products, including load balancers, DNS, core compute, storage, and distribution.

AWS began seeing customers scale their very large networks. “We’d have customers being extremely creative with how they managed routing space,” Mahura said. “And then several that said, ‘Hey, we want to stop. We want to pull the plug on this. We’d like everything in our internal applications to support IPv6 and v6-only.’” So, in the last few years, AWS has launched IPv6-only for its core compute and Kubernetes services and continuously expanded its IPv6 support for data stores. IPv6-only will soon be available for its serverless compute, too.

To learn more about IPv6 recent launches, read customer success stories, and see a detailed support matrix to demystify the cloud, visit the AWS IPv6 webpage.