AWS Global Accelerator: Hands-On and Overview

AWS Global Accelerator: Hands-On and Overview

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AWS Global Accelerator

Step by step Tutorial to Set UP Global Accelerator for your workload.

Today, I'll go through the operation of Global Accelerator, one of the AWS networking components. This allows you to increase application availability and performance. This service is also a part of the AWS Advanced Networking Speciality Exam.

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking solution that assists you in increasing the availability and performance of the apps you provide to your global consumers. The AWS Global Accelerator service is simple to set up, configure, and maintain. It provides static IP addresses, which give a consistent entry point for your applications and remove the hassle of managing numerous IP addresses for different AWS Regions and Availability Zones.

AWS Global Accelerator constantly sends user traffic to the best and optimal endpoint, reacting quickly to changes in application health, your user's location, and policies that you define.

Image reference: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/

Accessing Web Applications

Without the use of AWS Global Accelerator, Many networks may be required to reach the application. The paths to and from the application may vary. Each hop has an effect on performance and might create risks.

Using AWS Global Accelerator eliminates these inefficiencies. It makes use of the Global AWS Network, which improves performance.

Features:

  1. Global Edge Network

Note: Since AWS Global Accelerator is a global service, it's not associated with any region.

Without further ado, let's get started with Hands-On of AWS Global Accelerator.

Step by Step Hands-On to setup AWS Global Accelerator:

Step 1: Select Global Accelerator in AWS Management Console.

Step 2: Click on "Create Accelerator" and enter the appropriate name for Accelerator.

Step 3: Add a listener port, I selected port 80 and TCP Protocol.

Step 4: Add regions and traffic dial for required regions.

Traffic Dial: Traffic dial is an option to increase or decrease the traffic to the endpoint, 100 is 100%.

Step 5: Configure the health check.

Step 6: Add endpoint groups.

By choosing the AWS Regions to which you wish to distribute traffic, you can select one or more regional endpoint groups to associate with your accelerator's listener.

Requests are routed to the registered endpoints in this endpoint group by your listener. AWS Global Accelerator uses the health check parameters established for each endpoint to monitor the health of endpoints within the group.
A traffic dial percentage may be configured for each endpoint group, which governs the amount of traffic that an endpoint group accepts. For all regional endpoint groups, the traffic dial is set to 100% by default.
Step 6: Click on Create Accelerator.
The accelerator is deployed successfully.
Register endpoints for endpoint groups: In each endpoint group, you register one or more regional resources, such as Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, or Elastic IP addresses. Then you can assign weights to each endpoint to control how much traffic is routed to it.

Testing

In order to test if the accelerator is working you can configure a custom message for each region and use VPN to each region to test if the accelerator is pointing you to the right endpoint in the selected region.

Deleting the Global Accelerator.

If you are creating it just to practice, make sure to delete the Global Accelerator and the associated endpoints to prevent unnecessary bills.

Conclusion

In this blog, I successfully demonstrated the step-by-step implementation of Global Accelerator. Along with the summary, it also includes a list of its features and benefits.

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