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I didn't know this! How is this different from AWS CloudFront?

• helsinkiandrew 5y ago
  Cloudfront caches content at edge locations near users whilst Accelerator routes requests to the nearest endpoint to the user.
  • DarkCrusader2 5y ago
    If I am understanding it correctly, Cloudfront can use Accelerator to find the nearest edge location to cache, right?
    • donavanm 5y ago
      Not quite. Cloudfront predates Global Accelerator and has all its own infrastructure/routing/etc to answer client queries, get them to a nearby AWS pop, and return local content or fetch content from your single origin. GA is similar, but more like a global anycast routing layer/load balancer. You can have multiple backends, different regions etc, use a single public GA endpoint, and GA will route the request to your nearest backend. You could use a GA endpoint as an origin for Cloudfront, I guess, to keep all traffic as near to the client as possible.