Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink adds IPv6 endpoints

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports dual-stack endpoints for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. When you make a request to a dual-stack endpoint, the endpoint URL resolves to an IPv6 or an IPv4 address. You can access dual-stack endpoints using the SDK, a configuration file, or an environment variable.

The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Create or update an Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink application in the Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink console.

This capability is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is currently available. For Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink region availability, refer to the AWS Region Table. You can find out more about IPv6 on AWS here. For a full list of dual-stack endpoints, see the SDK Reference guide.