Overview
Global Accelerator (e.g., AWS Global Accelerator) provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple regions. It uses the cloud provider's global network to optimize the path from your users to your applications.
Key Features
- Static Anycast IPs: Provides two static IP addresses that are announced from the edge locations.
- Traffic Dial: Allows you to control the percentage of traffic directed to each endpoint group.
- Health Monitoring: Automatically redirects traffic to healthy endpoints in other regions if a failure occurs.
- Low Latency: Bypasses the public internet for most of the journey, reducing jitter and latency.
Use Cases
- Multi-region deployments for disaster recovery.
- Latency-sensitive applications like gaming or VoIP.
- Applications requiring fixed IP addresses for whitelisting.