# AWS Global Accelerator

### S3 Transfer Acceleration

• Increase transfer speed by transferring file to an AWS edge location which will forward the data to the S3 bucket in the target region

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### AWS Global Accelerator

* 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

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### AWS Global Accelerator vs CloudFront

• 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)&#x20;
* 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

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