Configure your network
Before you deploy your cluster, you must configure the network on which the database will run.
Before you deploy your cluster, you must configure the network on which the database will run. The database requires a number of specific network configurations to operate on AWS. You may also have specific network configuration needs beyond the default database settings.
Important
You can create a database that uses IPv6 for internal communications running on AWS. However, if you do so, you must identify the hosts in your cluster using IP addresses rather than host names. The AWS DNS resolution service is incompatible with IPv6.The following sections explain which Amazon EC2 features you need to configure for instance creation.