AWS Global Accelerator

  • start with 2x anycast IP address, all global accelerator edge location have all using this pair of IPs
  • user pointing the IPs will be routed to the closest global accelerator edge location, then data transits globally across the AWS global backbone network fully control by AWS
  • don’t cache data like cloudfront, it accelerate the data transit from client to the location of the target infrastructure
  • can be used for NON HTTP/S (e. g. TCP/UCP)

Disaster Recovery

  • Global Accelerator performs health checks for the application
  • Failover in less than 1 minute for unhealthy endpoints