advanced~1.5h
AWS Global Accelerator
Routing global user traffic onto AWS's private backbone network via static anycast IPs, for consistent low latency and fast regional failover — and how it differs from CloudFront.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain what problem Global Accelerator solves that CloudFront doesn't
- •Describe how anycast IP addressing lets traffic enter the AWS network at the nearest edge location
- •Trace what happens to in-flight traffic during a Global Accelerator regional failover
- •Identify workload types where Global Accelerator is the right tool versus CloudFront or Route 53
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