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by skywhopper
3489 days ago
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Great! Lots of people on Hacker News use AWS because places like Linode and DO don't actually have all the services and scale their work requires. Believe me, we agree that this announcement is several years overdue. I think most engineers who work in AWS would also agree. But when you get to their scale, it's hard to make big changes like this in a safe way. The fact that it rolled out in a brand-new region (us-east-2 only for now) is good evidence that they are being very very careful with this rollout. And as mentioned, the reason there are so many AWS posts this week is because they save up all their announcements for the conference going on right now. I sorta wish they'd spread the stuff out more, myself, but these are mostly HN-front-page quality announcements. It's just a year's worth of work dumped all in two days. |
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Which only makes it more baffling that AWS still doesn't support IPv6 everywhere.
IPv6 is 8 years older than AWS. AWS is a decade old. Given that the inevitability of IPv6 is long known and that it's well known that as a rule changes get more difficult the bigger you get, I would have expected Amazon to start IPv6 deployment much earlier, back when AWS was much smaller.