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AWS Global Accelerator improves global application availability and performance using the AWS global network
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AWS Global Accelerator leverages the AWS internal network to optimize the route to your application (60% improvement)
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2 Anycast IP are created for your application and traffic is sent through Edge Locations
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The Edge Locations send the traffic to your application
They both use the AWS Global Network and its edge location around the world.
They both integrate with AWS Shield for DDoS protection.
CloudFront
- Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Improves performances for your cacheable content
- 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 and UDP
- Good for HTTP use cases that require static IP addresses
- Good for HTTP use cases that require deterministic, fast regional failover