IP address types for your Application Load Balancer - Elastic Load Balancing

IP address types for your Application Load Balancer

You can configure your Application Load Balancer so that clients can communicate with the load balancer using IPv4 addresses only, or using both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (dualstack). The load balancer communicates with targets based on the IP address type of the target group. For more information, see IP address type.

Dualstack requirements

  • You can set the IP address type when you create the load balancer and update it at any time.

  • The virtual private cloud (VPC) and subnets that you specify for the load balancer must have associated IPv6 CIDR blocks. For more information, see IPv6 addresses in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

  • The route tables for the load balancer subnets must route IPv6 traffic.

  • The security groups for the load balancer must allow IPv6 traffic.

  • The network ACLs for the load balancer subnets must allow IPv6 traffic.

To set the IP address type at creation

Configure settings as described in Create a Load Balancer.

To update the IP address type using the console

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. On the navigation pane, choose Load Balancers.

  3. Select the load balancer.

  4. On the Network mapping tab, choose Edit IP address type.

  5. For IP address type, choose IPv4 to support IPv4 addresses only or Dualstack to support both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

  6. Choose Save changes.

To update the IP address type using the AWS CLI

Use the set-ip-address-type command.