AWS Global Accelerator Setup Demo

Overview

AWS Global Accelerator: a global networking service
Runs in edge locations of AWS network
Optimizes user-to-application path for better availability and performance (up to 60%)

Traditional web app network involves multiple networks, causing latency
AWS Global Accelerator minimizes latency by moving traffic to AWS network sooner
Speed Comparison Tool: Shows up to 60% decreased latency vs. public internet

AWS Management Console:
- Open AWS Global Accelerator
- Click “Create accelerator”
- Name the accelerator
- Using own static IPs (optional)
Create Listeners:
- Application Load Balancer listening on TCP port 80
- Can listen on multiple ports or port ranges
- Client affinity: Maintain user-to-endpoint connection (optional)
- Configure for UDP connections (optional)
Configure Endpoint Groups:
- Collection of endpoints in a single AWS Region
- Up to 10 Endpoint Groups behind a single accelerator
- Example: Choose “us-east-1” for North Virginia region
- Multiple regions: Add endpoint group in each region
- Traffic dial: Control traffic percentage to each group (default 100%)
- Health checks: Uses load balancer settings by default
Add Endpoint:
- Define endpoint group
- Select Application Load Balancer as endpoint type
- Choose sample application load balancer in dropdown
- Can select internal Application Load Balancer (optional)
- Weight setting: Directs traffic to specific endpoints
- Preserve client IP address (default setting)
Provisioning Accelerator:
- Takes a few minutes to become available
- Verify application functionality using provided DNS name
- Update Route 53 record set to point to Global Accelerator DNS
- Users benefit from improved performance