AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate
Global Accelerator against CloudFront
Both services put AWS edge locations in front of your workload, and only one of them caches. This lesson covers Global Accelerator's anycast static IPs, listeners, endpoint groups, and traffic dials, then draws the boundary that decides which service a scenario is describing.
Intermediate 24 minutes 5 Learning Objectives
- Explain how anycast static IP addresses and the AWS global network shorten the path from a client to a regional endpoint
- Describe the components of a standard accelerator: listeners, endpoint groups, endpoints, and network zones
- Distinguish a traffic dial from an endpoint weight and choose the right one for a given traffic-shifting requirement
- Compare standard accelerators with custom routing accelerators
- Choose between CloudFront and Global Accelerator from the protocol, cacheability, and addressing constraints in a scenario