AWS Global Accelerator
AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that helps you improve the availability, performance, and security of your public applications[1]
- GA provides two IP addresses which act as fixed entrypoint for application endpoints such as Application/Network LoadBalancers, EC2 and Elastic IPs
Image Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/
Use cases
Global Traffic Manager -- Route Traffic to the nearest Region or achieve Fast failover across the region
API Acceleration -- Accelerate API workloads by leveraging TCP termination at the edge
Global Static IP -- Simply allow listing in enterprise firewall and IOT use cases
Low-Latency for gaming and media workloads -- Use custom routing to deterministically route traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances
How is AWS Global Accelerator different from CloudFront?
CloudFront improves performance for both cacheable content (such as images and videos) and dynamic content (such as API acceleration and dynamic site delivery). Global Accelerator improves performance for a wide range of applications over TCP or UDP by proxying packets at the edge to applications running in one or more AWS Regions.
Global Accelerator is a good fit for both non-HTTP and HTTP use cases.