Audience
Developers looking for a Web Accelerator solution to improve application availability, performance, and security
About AWS Global Accelerator
AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that helps you improve the availability, performance, and security of your public applications. Global Accelerator provides two global static public IPs that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints, such as Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, and elastic IPs. Take advantage of the performance, security, and availability of the AWS Global Infrastructure to onboard your user traffic at one of the Global Accelerator edge locations. Users can access your application endpoints through static IP addresses to enjoy deterministic routing independent of DNS.
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Amazon
Founded: 1994
United States
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Product Details
Platforms Supported
Cloud
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Documentation
Support
Online
AWS Global Accelerator Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does AWS Global Accelerator work with?
AWS Global Accelerator works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does AWS Global Accelerator support in their product?
AWS Global Accelerator supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does AWS Global Accelerator offer?
AWS Global Accelerator offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does AWS Global Accelerator integrate with?
AWS Global Accelerator integrates with: AWS Site-to-Site VPN, AWS VPN, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Q: What type of training does AWS Global Accelerator provide?
AWS Global Accelerator provides training in the form of documentation.
