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Support for IPv6
You can now connect to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage via IPv6. Here's the story of how we deployed it and why that matters for you.
If your systems are IPv6-enabled or enabling IPv6 is on your roadmap, good news—starting yesterday and continuing over the course of the next few weeks, Backblaze will be “flipping the switch” and turning on IPv6 for our S3 Compatible API. While our IPv6 deployment isn’t completely done yet (we’re phasing the roll out through our environment), we thought we’d share some of the decisions we made that affect performance and functionality. NAT adds processing overhead to network traffic as it translates IP addresses, which can lead to latency issues, especially with high-volume data transfer.
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