AWS Global Accelerator
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• Increase transfer speed by transferring file to an AWS edge location which will forward the data to the S3 bucket in the target region
Improve global application availability and performance using the AWS global network
Leverage the AWS internal network to optimize the route to your application (60% improvement)
2 Anycast IPs are created for your application and traffic is sent through Edge Locations
The Edge locations send the traffic to your application
• They both use the AWS global network and its edge locations around the world
• Both services integrate with AWS Shield for DDoS protection.
• CloudFront – Content Delivery Network
Improves performance for your cacheable content (such as images and videos)
Content is served at the edge
• Global Accelerator
No caching, proxying packets at the edge to applications running in one or more AWS Regions.
Improves performance for a wide range of applications over TCP or UDP
Good for HTTP use cases that require static IP addresses
Good for HTTP use cases that require deterministic, fast regional failover
