
AWS Global Accelerator now supports dual-stack accelerators that enable routing of both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to Amazon EC2 instances as endpoints, providing improved performance for applications serving both protocol versions.


<div><p>This article announces AWS Global Accelerator now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) routing to Amazon EC2 instances as endpoints.</p><ul><li>Route both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to EC2 instances using dual-stack accelerators</li><li>Dual-stack accelerators provide two static IPv4 and two static IPv6 addresses</li><li>Support for UDPv6 traffic enables custom routing use cases like gaming and VoIP</li><li>No additional cost for IPv6 support</li><li>EC2 endpoints must have a primary IPv6 address to be added</li><li>Create new dual-stack accelerators or update existing ones to dual-stack</li><li>All endpoints must be dual-stack to upgrade an existing accelerator</li></ul><p>AWS Global Accelerator now enables seamless dual-stack networking for EC2 endpoints, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 clients without additional costs or application logic changes.</p></div>


Related articles