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Re:IPv4 pricing by nousermane on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:41AM (#27983606)
Anther example of big cloud providers not taking v6 seriously - AWS wouldn't even let your IPv6 hosts talk to their API:

  $ dig +short a ec2.amazonaws.com
  52.46.140.46

  $ dig +short aaaa ec2.amazonaws.com
  (no response)
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Re:IPv4 pricing by usrlocal1023 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:21AM (#27984107)
They now have a dual stack EC2 API endpoint. But you have to go out of your way to use as it is on a totally different domain, and also it is limited to few regions. us-east-2 region for example

  api.ec2.us-east-2.aws
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Using...
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Re:IPv4 pricing by colmmacc on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:48PM (#27986870)
Our reason for this is that customers may have IP-based rules in their IAM policies. If we silently turned on IPv6 for existing endpoints, those policies would suddenly break without notice. Hence new names and SDK options for dual-stack.
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Re:IPv4 pricing by corty on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:23AM (#27984137)
Same with GCP, they just announced IPv6 availability for VMs in the last few days. Unbelievably you couldn't even get a IPv6 address for a GCP instance up to now! APIs don't work over IPv6, and lots of other stuff doesn't as well.
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