
Amazon S3 now supports multivalue DNS answers, returning up to eight IP addresses per query to enable concurrent connections, improve throughput, and make retries more efficient without additional cost.


<div><p>This article announces Amazon S3 support for multivalue answer (MVA) in DNS queries, enabling improved performance and reliability for S3 connections.</p><ul><li>DNS queries now return up to eight S3 IP addresses per response</li><li>Multiple concurrent connections to S3 improve throughput automatically</li><li>Retries use alternative IP addresses without additional DNS queries</li><li>Newer AWS SDKs (Java 2.x, C++, Python Boto3) support MVA automatically</li><li>Java SDK v2 with Common Runtime Library gains enhanced performance benefits</li><li>No additional cost; available in all AWS Commercial Regions</li></ul><p>MVA support improves S3 performance and connection reliability with automatic SDK integration and no additional charges.</p></div>


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