IPv6 in VPC
Explore how to enable and configure IPv6 in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud. Understand the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, dual-stack operation, and how to update security groups. Learn the role of egress-only internet gateways in managing outbound IPv6 traffic for private instances within your VPC.
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IPv6 is a successor of IPv4 that has a very large space of public IP addresses. We can enable IPv6 for our VPC and subnets initially enabled for IPv4 only. This way, our VPC will operate in dual-stack mode. IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows without interacting, and the resources can communicate with each by using either IPv4 or IPv6 or both.
Why IPv6?
IPv4 address space is limited by its design ...