Global Accelerator

Solution Architect Associate

Developer Associate

Security Specialty

  • Networking service that sends your user’s traffic through AWS’s global network infrastructure. Helps deal with performance and IP Caching issues (know this for exam!!)
  • Sits in front of your other infrastructure
  • Gives you two static IP addresses that do not change, and automatically adjusts traffic to resources behind those addresses transparently to the user
  • Allows you to mask complex architecture as it grows and changes.
  • Traffic beyond the Global Accelerator all travels through AWS’s global infrastructure
  • You can create weighted groups/pools to test new features to smaller segments of users
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