AWS Global Accelerator Setup

AWS Global Accelerator is a service that improves the availability and performance of applications with local or global users. It takes advantage of the AWS backbone network to route traffic to the most appropriate destinations throughout the AWS global network.

By mapping application endpoints to static anycast IP addresses, Global Accelerator directs users to Internet apps.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used to advertise static IP addresses internationally, removing the complexity associated with DNS-based traffic routing.

AWS Global Accelerator provides static anycast IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your applications. These static IP addresses are anycast from AWS edge locations and announce to the internet from multiple AWS Regions. The IP addresses are associated with an accelerator, so you can add or remove endpoints as needed without having to update DNS names.

We have seen a lot of questions lately about AWS Global Accelerator. We wanted to create a simple tutorial to assist you to understand the service. This will undoubtedly benefit you.

Global Accelerator is a good choice if you have an application hosted on resources in more than one AWS Region. such as multiple Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, or Elastic IP addresses.

Global Accelerator provides you with static IP addresses for use inside and outside of AWS. You can configure these addresses as DNS names with your Domain Name System (DNS) service provider

Here are the steps to set up AWS Global Accelerator.

• Firstly, launch the AWS Global Accelerator console. You may access it by selecting Services from the top menu and then selecting Global Accelerator from the Networking & Content Delivery section. Simply click Get started from there.

• Next, choose the deployment option that best fits your needs. There are two options: single accelerator and multiple accelerators. We’ll cover both of them here.

• If you choose Single accelerator, you’ll be asked to enter the name of your accelerator, a description of your accelerator, and any tags to add to your accelerator. You’ll also have to specify the supported IP address types for your application—that is, IPv4 addresses or both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses—and then click Next.

• Now you can add listeners for your accelerator. A listener routes inbound traffic from clients to one or more endpoint groups that you define, based on rules that you specify. Listener rules enable you to route traffic intended for specific ports on an endpoint group through a specific port on the listener. As a result, each listener rule requires an action and a rule condition that determines which requests it applies to. To learn more about listener rules, see Working with Listener Rules

 

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