

For example, you could create different pools for ‘dev’ and ‘prod’ environments if they are subject to different connectivity requirements. Further, if you have applications or environments with different security needs, you can create additional pools. Unused address space from your top-level pools can be used to fill your regional pools.

Pools are collections of CIDRs and help you to organize your IP space. In each Region in which you have resources needing IP addresses, you create a regional pool. From this centralized view, you can manage your IP addresses across AWS. IPAM enables management and auditing of IP address assignments across an organization’s accounts, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)‘s, and AWS Regions, using a single operational dashboard. Introducing Amazon VPC IP Address Manager
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IPAM makes it easier for network administrators to organize, assign, monitor, and audit IP addresses in at-scale networks, lowering the management and monitoring burden and eliminating the manual processes that can lead to delays and unintended errors. Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), a new feature that provides network administrators with an automated IP management workflow. The need to keep those home-grown tools and scripts up-to-date and error-free also results in taking staff hours away from more strategic and business-impacting projects. In turn, the time taken to make these updates, sometimes several days, causes delays in onboarding new applications or expanding existing applications, impacting the velocity of development teams. Errors which, should they go unnoticed, can lead to address conflicts and subsequent downtime, causing serious operational and business issues. Manually updating spreadsheets when application development teams request IP address assignments takes time, and care, to avoid errors. Traditionally, network administrators have resorted to using combinations of spreadsheets, home-grown tools, and scripts to track address assignments across multiple accounts, virtual private clouds (VPCs), and Regions. Managing, monitoring, and auditing IP address allocation for at-scale networks, as the growth in cloud workloads and connected devices continues at a rapid pace, is a complex, time-consuming, and potentially error-prone task.
