[jbott]

You individually? There really isn't a reason to. *

However, as a whole, the lack of native IPv6 support in EC2 certainly held back the global deployment cycle. It's the chicken and the egg problem: Without support for servers that use IPv6, there is no reason for last mile providers to implement it in households. With this update, a huge swath of sites will get support, hopefully leading to quicker adoption for end users.

* for most applications. This is certainly trivializing a subset of applications where this could be useful.