Network and Content Delivery
CoreAWS Global Accelerator
Explicit content/service distribution alternative to CloudFront.
Key points
- Global Accelerator uses supported regional endpoints and anycast addresses for accelerated traffic without providing a content cache.
Best-known use cases
- D2.1, D2.2, and D5.1: accelerate or fail over a named non-cacheable or non-HTTP endpoint workload.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Global Accelerator accelerates supported endpoint traffic; CloudFront adds HTTP content and cache behavior.
Key takeaway
Select Global Accelerator when endpoint acceleration and health-based routing are required without caching.
Related services
- Amazon Application Recovery Controller
- AWS Client VPN
- Amazon CloudFront
Relevant exam tasks
- D2.1 — Task 2.1: Implement scalability and elasticity.
- 2.1.1 — Configure and manage scaling mechanisms in compute environments.
- D2.2 — Task 2.2: Implement highly available and resilient environments.
- 2.2.1 — Configure and troubleshoot Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Amazon Route 53 health checks.
- D5.1 — Task 5.1: Implement and optimize networking features and connectivity.
- 5.1.1 — Configure a VPC (for example, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, NAT gateways, internet gateway, egress-only internet gateway).