AWS Global Accelerator

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What job does it solve?

Global clients need stable IP entry points and fast routing to healthy regional endpoints.

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Where does it stop?

HTTP content caching is the deciding requirement; use CloudFront for that job.

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Closely related services

• Amazon CloudFrontA content delivery network that serves and can cache HTTP content at edge locations near viewers.
• Amazon Route 53Managed DNS, domain registration, and health-check-based routing features.
• Elastic Load BalancingDistributes incoming traffic across healthy targets using application, network, or gateway load balancer types.

IN THIS COURSE

Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 18Choose the right front door—and cache only safe data
• Lesson 28Choose disaster recovery from RTO and RPO
• Lesson 31Interactive edge, global, private, and hybrid placement
• Lesson 43Interactive network flow, edge delivery, and transfer-cost tracing

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