AWS Global Accelerator to speed up your website globally

Problem

• You have deployed an application and have global users who want to access it.
• Users from all over the world who want to access the traffic must go through the internet and pass to many hops which causes too much latency.
• We wish to go as fast as possible through the AWS network to minimize latency.

AWS Global Accelerator

• Works with EIP, EC2 instance, ALB, NLB, public or private.
• Consistent performance Intelligent routing to the lowest latency and fast regional failover. No issue with the client cache(since IP won't change) in the Internal AWS network.
• Health checksGlobal Accelerator performs health checks on your applications. Help make your app global(failover less than 1 minute for unhealthy). Great for disaster recovery ( thanks to the health checks)
• Security: Only 2 external IPs need to be whitelisted, we have DDoS protection thanks to AWS Shield

Compare Global Accelerator vs CloudFront

• Both use the AWS global network and its edge locations around the world.
• Both services integrate with AWS Shield for DDoS protection.

CloudFront

• Improve performance for both cachable content (images, videos)
• Dynamic content(such as API acceleration and dynamic site delivery)
• Content is served at the edge.

Global Accelerator

• Improves performance for a wide range of applications over TCP and UDP.
• Proxy package at the edge to an application running in one or more AWS regions.
• Good fit for non-HTTP use cases such as gaming (UDP), IoT, Voice over IP
• Good for HTTP use cases that require static IP addresses.

Please note that AWS Global Accelerator pricing · Fixed fee: For every full or partial hour when an accelerator runs in your account, you are charged $0.025 until it is deleted.