Lecture # 26 : AWS Global Acclerator
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15 minutes


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Improve global application availablity & Peformance using teh AWS Global Network. Leverage the AWS internal network to optimize the route to your application. (60% improvement)

2 Static AnycastIPs are created for your application & is sent through Edge Location. The edge location will send this traffic to your Application.

# What is the difference Between Global Acclerator & Cloud Front

"Global Architecture"


- CloudFront is a CDN
- It improves your peformance by cacheing
- Content is served at the edge.

while

- Global Acclerator involves no cacheing,
- but proxying packets at the edge to application running in one or more regions.
- Thereby improving peformance for a wide range of applications over TCP/UDP.
- It is good for HTTP usecase that require static IP address