AWS Global Accelerator is a service that improves the availability and performance of your applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such as your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers or Amazon EC2 instances.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| AWS Global Accelerator | 4.0% |
| Cloudflare | 19.1% |
| Akamai | 15.0% |
| Other | 61.9% |
AWS Global Accelerator uses the AWS global network to optimize the path from your users to your applications, improving the performance of your TCP and UDP traffic. AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and redirects traffic to healthy endpoints in less than 30 seconds.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer (Back End) at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees | 4.5 | I used AWS Global Accelerator to enable region switching, improve fault tolerance, and support zero-downtime deployments. While setup and performance were smooth, better documentation and CloudFormation support would have enhanced the experience. |
