AWS Global Accelerator¶

TLDR¶

UDP compatible global endpoint to speed up networkt traffic to your VPC by using edge locations and aws private network.

Features¶

• network layer service
• distribute traffic to optimal endpoints over AWS Network
• two static anycast ip adresses as fixed entrypoints
• Global service
• can use weights to distribute portion of traffic
• good fit for non http use cases

Targets¶

• ELB ALB
• ELB NLB
• Elastic IP
• EC2

Health Checks¶

• failover less than 1 min unhealty
• good disater recovery

Security¶

• only 2 external ips need to be whitelisted