Setup & operation
Do you provide IPv6?
Short answer
Yes — a routed /64 subnet on every instance, at every tier, at no cost. Not a single address: an entire subnet routed to your server, so each container or service can hold its own public IPv6 address without network address translation.
This matters more than it used to. Large parts of the mobile internet are IPv6-only behind translation, and being natively reachable removes a layer that can only add latency and failure modes.
One warning: firewall rules that only cover IPv4 leave every service on your instance publicly reachable over v6. Check that your ruleset covers both families.
See also: IPv6
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