April 27, 2020 / Nirav Shah
Are you still looking for a way to optimize requests from AWS application load balancer to EC2? Look no further as AWS has a service for this. In this blog post we will explain to you in-depth about AWS Global Accelerator and how it can help you to optimize the incoming requests on your EC2 server.
AWS Global Accelerator is a service that is designed to boost the performance and availability of your application for all users. It achieves the same by providing us with static IP addresses that acts as a single entry point for your application in a single or multiple AWS regions and manages the coordination between your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers or Amazon EC2 instances.
AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and redirects traffic to healthy endpoints in less than 30 seconds or 1 minute,
It provide static IP addresses that are anycast from the AWS edge network and If you want to bring your own IP address range to AWS (BYOIP), so that you can instead assign static IP addresses from your own pool to use with your accelerator. and For more information, see Bring Your Own IP Addresses (BYOIP) in AWS Global Accelerator.
To more about static ip address please visit below page.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/introduction-how-it-works.html
So now let’s see how can look like without Accelerator
It can take many networks to reach the application.and it take more time to reach the end point
By using AWS Global Accelerator we can remove these inefficiencies. It leverages the Global AWS Network, in the resulting improved performance.
For detailed steps about how to create an accelerator using the AWS Global Accelerator console, see Getting Started with AWS Global Accelerator. To work with API operations, see Common Actions That You Can Use with AWS Global Accelerator and the AWS Global Accelerator API Reference.
You have to pay $0.025/hour for each “accelerator.” You also pay for the amount of traffic that flows through it.
Let us take an example:
If you have 60% of your traffic is outbound, you’re only charged for the outbound portion. This charge is in addition to the standard data transfer rates, and the amount depends on what regions and edge locations are used.
There’s a lot of overlap between Global Accelerator, Route 53, and CloudFront, but there are tradeoffs you should be aware of when architecting applications that are resilient, performant, and globally available. It’s great to see these new capabilities being offered and it enables a lot of new possibilities.
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FAQs:
Q.1What is the difference between Global Accelerator and CloudFront?
Q. 2 Is AWS Global Accelerator a load balancer?
As a Director of Eternal Web Private Ltd an AWS consulting partner company, Nirav is responsible for its operations. AWS, cloud-computing and digital transformation are some of his favorite topics to talk about. His key focus is to help enterprises adopt technology, to solve their business problem with the right cloud solutions.
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