AWS Elastic IP architecture

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

As I said before:

Host Virtual (vr.org <http://vr.org/>)
Softlayer (softlayer.com <http://softlayer.com/>)
Linode (Linode.com <http://linode.com/>)

All have full dual-stack support.

I?m sure there are others.

Owen

> On May 31, 2015, at 2:49 PM, George, Wes <wesley.george at twcable.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/31/15, 3:11 PM, "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> 
>> if they said ?We have a plan, and it will take X amount of time?, I would
>> respect that.
>> 
>> If they said ?We have a plan and we?re not sure how long it will take?, I
>> would continue to poke
>> them about sooner is better than later and having a target date helps
>> people to plan.
>> 
>> ?We don?t think IPv6 matters and we aren?t announcing any plans to get it
>> implemented or any
>> date by which it will be available?, on the other hand, being what they
>> have actually repeatedly
>> said to me until very recently, not so much.
>> 
>> Now, they?re saying (essentially) ?We think IPv6 might matter, but we
>> aren?t announcing
>> any plans to get it implemented or any date by which it will be
>> available? .  To me, this
>> is still a problematic situation for their customers.
> 
> At the risk of feeding the troll...
> 
> This isn't just an AWS problem.
> 
> "All Compute Engine networks use the IPv4 protocol. Compute Engine
> currently does not support IPv6. However, Google is a major advocate of
> IPv6 and it is an important future direction."
> https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networking
> 
> 
> "The foundational work to enable IPv6 in the Azure environment is well
> underway. However, we are unable to share a date when IPv6 support will be
> generally available at this time."
> 
> http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/faq/
> 
> 
> This is only marginally better, as it acknowledges that it's important,
> but still has no actual committed timeline and doesn't even reference any
> available ELB hacks.
> 
> Anyone else want to either name and shame, or highlight cloud providers
> that actually *support* IPv6 as an alternative to these so that one might
> be able to vote with one's wallet?
> 
> 
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