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AWS Global Accelerator

  • Leverage AWS internal network to route your application.

  • 2 Anycast IPs are created for your application.

  • Anycast IP sends the traffic directly to the Edge Locations.

  • The Edge locations sends the traffic to your application.

  • Works with Elastic IP, EC2 Instances, ALB, NLB, etc.

  • Consistent Performance

  • Health Checks

  • Security

Unicast IP vs Anycast IP

  • Unicast IP: One server holds one IP.
  • Anycast IP: All servers holds the same IP; client is routed to the nearest one.