Root domain support for elastic load balancers is huge. I've been having to redirect from a separate host totally defeating the purpose of the elastic load balancer in the first place. Now all they need is a damn gui for route 53 dns. The "official" xml config file fed into perl script is a huge bummer.
We've also paid for an instance which does only redirects to a subdomain because of ELB limits. Now I'm on my way to work and I know what I'm going to do when I get there. This is so huge. :)
The more articles like this I see, the more likely it seems that IPv6 will actually be in use some day. I think the hype of World IPv6 Day has really helped; it seems that a larger and larger proportion of my traffic is going out over IPv6 than a few months ago.
(Now I just need native IPv6 on my Dallas-based Linode.)
You've probably read some panic-inducing articles about the fact that the Internet is running out of IP addresses! [...] We're providing this new support in order to allow you to test your systems on World IPv6 day (June 8, 2011).
While any support for IPv6 is nice, I really wish that Amazon could have left out the sarcasm. Developers have been working for years on what they had the foresight to see as a very serious problem. (Itojun painfully comes to mind.) I find it demeaning to start out the announcement by attacking a straw-man.
I think this is a great first step for AWS on the road to v6 support, but the attitude plus implying that this is useful to "test" systems on World IPv6 day -- as if it's just a trophy game -- is not confidence inspiring.
Don't read too much into that. They did not say anything about the engineers. They talked about the articles - a good part of which is indeed panic-inducing. Which is probably a good thing in itself - else it's hard to get people moving.
And as you say - it's a great first step, a result. And it's results that matter. So, let's toast for the universal deployment of IPv6! And DNSSEC! :-)
And IPv6 day is mostly not about getting everything onto IPv6. It's mainly about verifying that after lighting up IPv6 on the content side not too many eyeballs fall off the IPv4 truck due to unrelated brokenness (or that we can catch a significant portion of them).
World IPv6 day is exactly a trophy game. The trophy is "no more fear of IPv6". A pretty damn good trophy in my book. Let's all go get it.
Given that this was meant for technical audiences who already know what IPv6 is, referring to "panic-inducing" media coverage(!) seems facetious. It's strange syntax if you take something seriously.
This could just be my read on it, if others disagree, that's fine too. There are plenty of other interesting things to discuss in this announcement.
I'm still waiting to be able to put my ELB in a security group itself so I can load balance my internal EC2 applications without needing to make my load balancer publicly available.
