Category: AWS Global Accelerator

Happy 2022 AWS Networking & Content Delivery enthusiasts! In December 2021, AWS hosted its 10th annual re:Invent conference. The Networking & Content Delivery team had 14 unique breakout sessions that were recorded and can be found on this playlist. In addition to these sessions, the Networking team had a leadership session presented by David Brown, […]

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that for your end users will improve the internet performance and availability by using Amazon Web Service’s global network infrastructure. There are workloads such as multiplayer gaming, VoIP, virtual classrooms (EdTech), video collaboration and social media applications that require the application logic to assign multiple users to a […]

Introduction In this article, I will walk you through the steps to configure Amazon API Gateway in combination with AWS Global Accelerator to present Internet-facing API via static IP addresses to end users. This design addresses the need for static IP safelisting and also provides additional performance benefits to end users by sending user’s traffic […]

Remote work has become more common over the last couple of years. For IT teams, this accelerated the need to support the secure distribution and collection of files and software updates for global teams in multiple locations. Additionally, organizations continue to partner with vendors or 3rd parties to distribute or collect data for analytics or […]

In this blog post, we will present an approach to starting small and testing the benefits of AWS Global Accelerator before determining if you would like to transition to a full Global Accelerator enhanced application. Similarly, if you are interested in performing A/B testing or looking for a rolling deployment method for the Global Accelerator, this blog […]

Many customers ask us how they can point their zone apex to their web content if it uses a DNS name rather than an IP address. This blog covers three design patterns and approaches that solve zone apex challenges with third-party DNS providers for applications hosted in AWS—and the pros and cons of each approach.

On the AWS networking team, we’re often asked by customers who use AWS Global Accelerator to provide guidance around how to test and measure the network performance of their applications. To share this information more broadly, we decided to write this blog post. In this post, we discuss the factors that impact network performance and […]

AWS Global Accelerator now supports custom routing accelerators, a new type of accelerator that allows you to use your own application logic to route multiple users to a specific Amazon EC2 destination, while still leveraging the benefits of Global Accelerator. Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves your internet user performance and availability by […]

Introduction AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that decreases latency, delivers greater performance, and achieves higher availability for internet traffic between your users and your applications running on AWS. By leveraging Global Accelerator, customers can achieve up to 60% better performance for internet traffic. In this blog post, we discuss the performance (voice quality, call setup […]

AWS Global Accelerator is a network layer service that directs traffic to optimal endpoints over the AWS global network, this improves the availability and performance of your internet applications. It provides two static anycast IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such […]