Accelerate your IPv6 adoption on AWS with Amazon VPC Lattice
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This article demonstrates how to use Amazon VPC Lattice to accelerate IPv6 adoption on AWS with seamless migration from IPv4-only to IPv6-enabled architectures.
- VPC Lattice enables native interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks across multi-account environments
- Supports four critical traffic flows: IPv4-to-IPv4, IPv4-to-IPv6, IPv6-to-IPv6, and IPv6-to-IPv4
- Blue-green deployments allow gradual IPv6 rollout with weighted traffic distribution (e.g., 90% IPv4, 10% IPv6)
- VPC Lattice FQDNs provide both A and AAAA DNS records for automatic IP version routing
- Access logs track IPv6 adoption progress via CloudWatch, Athena, and QuickSight dashboards
- Target groups must contain same IP type; dual-stack instances associate with either IPv4 or IPv6 groups
VPC Lattice simplifies IPv6 adoption by providing transparent connectivity between mixed IPv4/IPv6 workloads across AWS accounts without requiring client-side changes.
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