What's new at AWS 📢

✴️ AWS announces UDP support for AWSPrivateLink and dual-stack Network Load Balancers

✴️ Before, AWS PrivateLink only supported TCP, while NLB supported UDP only over IPv4.

✴️ After, this feature enables customers who use AWS PrivateLink and clients that use IPv6 to access UDP-based applications such as media-streaming, gaming, VoIP and other applications.

✴️ To use this capability, customer can now create a UDP listener on their existing or newly created dual-stack NLBs.

✴️ A dual-stack NLB supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and can process client requests that use either IP version.

✴️ What is AWS Network Load Balancer:
✔️ It is a high performance layer 4 load balancer that provides availability and scalability to applications while serving as the single point of contact for clients.

✴️ What is AWS PrivateLink:
✔️ It is a highly available and scalable service that enables to privately connect VPC to supported services such as;
✔️ AWS services, custom Services, Third-party SaaS services on the AWS Marketplace

✴️ Customer can attach the NLB to a VPC Endpoint Service, enabling clients to connect over AWS PrivateLink.

✴️ Customers that access services over AWS PrivateLink can now create VPC endpoint of type ‘interface’ to access UDP-based Endpoint Services, just like used to access TCP-based services today.

📌 Keynote for Pricing:
✔️ There are no additional charges for this capability.
✔️ Standard charges for AWS PrivateLink and Network Load Balancer apply.

📌 Explore more dual stack UDP NLB clients:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/accelerate-ipv6-application-migration-with-aws-privatelink-and-dual-stack-network-load-balancers-udp-support/