AWS Global Accelerator

  • With Global Accelerator, you are provided two global static public IPs that act as a fixed entry point to your application, improving availability

  • AWS Global Accelerator Reduce Internet latency

  • Corporate proxies (On-Prem) can also whitelist your application’s static IP addresses in their firewalls

  • Provides static IP which we can bind in the on-prem firewall

  • add or remove your AWS application endpoints, such as ALB, NLB, EC2 Instances, and Elastic IPs without making user-facing changes

  • Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), deliver content over TCP from across the globe

  • AWS Global Accelerator also performs health checks automatically and route traffic to healthy endpoints

  • CloudFront Vs Global Accelerator

    • CloudFront

      • HTTP, Cacheable TO users over CDN

    • Global Accelerator

      • HTTP, and non-HTTP such as TCP, UDP (gaming) , RTMP (real time high video and audio) , MQTT (IoT) , VoiP

      • From user location