Questions tagged [aws-global-accelerator]

This tag should be used when the questions asked concern about the latency of data transferred between the user and their application when they want to leverage AWS internal network and avoid internet hops and automatic failover.

The questions which can use this tag would be of the following :-

  1. when they want intelligent routing and automatic fast regional failover, and heath checks which are suitable for disaster recovery.

  2. when the questions involve rendering of dynamic content instead of cached content.

  3. When they want to leverage DDOS protection using AWS shield, transfer data through AWS private network.

  4. when they want to expose 2 static IP ADDRESS and uses a s3,alb,nlb,HTTP endpoint.

  5. when the application wants to leverage the idea of anycast IP that multiple servers holds same IP address,where client connect to the nearest server.

USE CASE

when a user have a global application but it is deployed in specific region and have global users who want to access it directly without any latency issue.

For documentation and explanation of the GlobalAccelerator

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AWS CloudFront vs Global Accelerator for Dynamic contents

What is the difference between CloudFront and Global Accelerator when we want to serve dynamic contents? https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/dynamic-content/ I expect that CloudFront is CDN, so it is used for static files such as images and videos.…
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Setting up cloudflare records to point to AWS global accelerator?

I set up a global accelerator in front of an ELB for EC2 instance. Accelerator gave me 2 static IP to use for DNS. Currently my DNS A record points to my EC2 public IP. When I remove this record and added the 2 A record with the GA IP's I get a 522…
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What is the AWS Global Accelerator ENI?

Reading here talks about the ENI (Elastic Network Interface). Do I need to create these manually when using the Global Accelerator, or what do I need to do in regards to ENIs? Do I need to manually create ENIs, or are they created automatically,…
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Socket.io architecture/configuration to connect to the closest server when available

We have Global Accelerator setup in Amazon to route requests to the closest host from some multiple nodes. How does socket.io play out in this case? If let's say a user connected, and the socket client is connected to host A, but then host B which…
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How to get lowest latency between two AWS regions?

My EC2 instance is located in AWS-East-1 (US). It makes rest calls to a server (crypto exchange) hosted in AWS Tokyo. Currently, over the internet, it takes 175ms for data packet round trip. How can I achieve lowest latency in this connection? I…
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AWS Zone Apex challenge with older DNS server

We have a site in AWS Amplify. Creating a custom domain requires pointing the URL to a CNAME issued by them. We want to use the Amplify website for our root domain, "example.com". RFC 1034 says that the zone apex must be an A Record, and not a…
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Get static IPs from Global accelerator-cloudformation

I'm trying to output static IPs from the AWS global accelerator, but according to AWS docs, the only available attributes are AcceleratorArn and DnsName. Is there some way I can output the static IPs? See below sample CF…
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How to pass region var into local-exec inside vpc module

So when you create in AWS the global accelerator, although you didn’t specify to create a security group explicitly, one was still created automatically because it’s a dependency for global accelerators. And when we run terraform destroy, the…
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Can Global Accelerator or Load balancer route traffic to APIs on AWS API Gateway where APIs have backend micro services outside of AWS?

Can Global Accelerator or Load balancer route traffic to APIs on AWS API Gateway where APIs have backend micro services outside of AWS? My clients are coming from internet, they need to call various APIs deployed on AWS Apigateway where the…
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Cross-region Read Replicas vs One Read Replica with AWS Global Accelerator

I would like to know what is more recommended when one DB instance should be shared across different AWS regions? Is it better to use cross-Region Read Replicas or to use Read Replica in region of origin + AWS Global Accelerator? Is there some "best…
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Do you need a NAT Gateway with a Private Application Load Balancer using Global Accelerator on AWS?

I would like to do this system: But I would also like to access the internet from the private servers, for example, for web crawling or third-party REST API access. How do I plugin the NAT gateway into this configuration? Do I need one? Where does…
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How Enable AWS GlobalAccelerator Logs?

AWS Documentation leaves so much to be desired. I am sure it's 100% accurate, just cryptic to me. I just want to see why my global accelerator is not routing to my internal web server. There are three (!) ways to monitor this, and I'm trying to…
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How to make sure, that a user stays at the new version of a blue-green deployment

Suppose you have a blue-green deployment and want to test it with 20% of the users with the global accelarator. You configure it, but that would mean that User A, who would be testing the new version of an application will not be redirected to the…
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Changing a CNAME entry for AWS Global accelerator

I'm trying to register a custom domain with Auth0 handling user authentication. To prove ownership for the certificates, I need to change the CNAME entry to add their content string. However, I would also like to run my site behind AWS Global…
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AWS Global Accelerator + ELB

I am exploring AWS Global Accelerator. The documentation says that we can put ELB (ALB or NLB) behind the AGA but it also says that ALB can be in private or public facing NLB can only be public facing Does anyone know why NLB is expected to only…
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