AWS Global Accelarator

• AWS Global Accelarator is a service that improves the availability and performance of applications with local or global users.

• It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such as ALB,NLB or EC2 instances.

• Uses AWS Global Network to optimize the path from users to applications,improving the performance of TCP and UDP traffic.

• AWS Global Accelarator continually monitors the health of the application endpoints and will detect an unhealthy endpoint and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints in less than 1 minute.

• Uses Redundant (two) static anycast IP addresses in different network Zones (A & B).

• The redundant pair are globally advertized.

• Uses AWS Edge Locations - addresses are announced from multiple edge locations at the same time.

• Addresses are associated to regional AWS resources or endpoints.

• AWS Global Accelarator IP addresses serve as the frontend interface of the applications.

• Intelligent traffic distribution: Routes connections to the closest point of presence for applications.