Enable IPv6 Support for your VPC and Resources

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: 3 minutes and 5 seconds

Students: 161

Rating: 5/5

In this lesson, we will review some of the internet protocol version 4 features of Amazon VPCs. Then you will be presented with internet protocol version 6, its notation and how to enable it for use with Amazon Virtual Private Clouds and EC2 Instances.

Learning Objectives

Discuss IPv4, IPv6 and how to configure it to be supported by Amazon VPCs and EC2 Instances.

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for architects and system operators looking to benefit by using IPv6 addressing with AWS resources. This lesson also covers some of the objectives for both the solutions architect professional and the AWS Networking Specialty certifications.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson you will need to meet the requirements for any of the AWS associate level certifications or the equivalent experience.

This lesson expects that you are familiar with the fundamentals of networking using AWS including Amazon Virtual Private Clouds, Public Subnets, Private Subnets, and IPv4 as used in EC2 Instances.

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