April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
The EC2 instances can be assigned either a static IP address or a dynamic IP address. AWS provides an option for both. It also provides DNS hostnames for the EC2 instances. The DNS names differ depending upon where the instance is launched. The instance launched in the EC2-Classic platform may have different DNS configuration as compared to the instance launched in the VPC.
Though an EC2 instance is assigned an IPv4 address by default, both VPC and EC2-Classic platforms support the IPv6 IP addressing schemes. When creating a VPC, the user must specify the IPv4 CIDR block that must be used to derive IP addresses to assign to the EC2 instance launched in that VPC. EC2-Classic platform does not support IPv6 format. ...