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Cloudfront caches content at edge locations near users whilst Accelerator routes requests to the nearest endpoint to the user.
by helsinkiandrew 5y ago
Cloudfront caches content at edge locations near users whilst Accelerator routes requests to the nearest endpoint to the user.
- DarkCrusader2 5y agoIf I am understanding it correctly, Cloudfront can use Accelerator to find the nearest edge location to cache, right?
- donavanm 5y agoNot 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.