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

You can configure your Gateway Load Balancer so that application servers can access your 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.

To set the IP address type at creation

Configure settings as described in .

To update the IP address type using the console

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. On the navigation pane, under Load Balancing, choose Load Balancers.

  3. Select the load balancer.

  4. Choose Actions, 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.

To update the IP address type using the Amazon CLI

Use the set-ip-address-type command.