aid: amazon-global-accelerator
name: Amazon Global Accelerator
description: Amazon Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves the performance and availability of applications
  with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your applications and uses
  the AWS global network to optimize the path from users to applications, improving performance by up to 60%.
image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-global-accelerator/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
created: '2024-01-15'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Availability
- AWS
- CDN
- Global
- Load Balancing
- Networking
- Performance
apis:
- aid: amazon-global-accelerator:amazon-global-accelerator-api
  name: Amazon Global Accelerator API
  description: The Amazon Global Accelerator API enables programmatic access to create and manage accelerators, listeners,
    and endpoint groups. You can configure traffic routing, health checks, and client IP address preservation to optimize
    application performance across AWS Regions.
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/
  baseURL: https://globalaccelerator.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Global
  - Networking
  - Performance
  - Traffic Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/what-is-global-accelerator.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-global-accelerator-openapi.yml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/getting-started/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/faqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/api/Welcome.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/global-accelerator-accelerator-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-global-accelerator-context.jsonld
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/amazon-global-accelerator.yaml
common:
- type: Portal
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/globalaccelerator
- type: SignUp
  url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: Contact
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/amazon-global-accelerator-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amazon-global-accelerator-vocabulary.yaml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Static Anycast IP Addresses
    description: Provides two static IP addresses as fixed entry points to applications, simplifying DNS management and whitelisting.
  - name: AWS Global Network Routing
    description: Routes user traffic through the AWS global network backbone for up to 60% performance improvement over public
      internet.
  - name: Intelligent Traffic Distribution
    description: Automatically routes traffic to the closest healthy endpoint based on geography, health, and routing policies.
  - name: Health Checking
    description: Continuously monitors endpoint health and instantly reroutes traffic away from unhealthy endpoints.
  - name: Client IP Preservation
    description: Preserves the original client IP address for application endpoints that need it.
  - name: Custom Routing
    description: Enables deterministic routing of connections to specific EC2 instances using port mappings.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Global Application Performance
    description: Improve latency and throughput for globally distributed users by routing through AWS edge locations.
  - name: Multi-Region Failover
    description: Automatically failover traffic to healthy endpoints across regions without DNS changes.
  - name: Gaming Applications
    description: Reduce latency for real-time gaming applications using the AWS global network.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: AWS Elastic Load Balancing
    description: Route traffic to Application, Network, or Classic Load Balancers as endpoints.
  - name: Amazon EC2
    description: Use EC2 instances directly as Global Accelerator endpoints.
  - name: Amazon CloudWatch
    description: Monitor accelerator metrics and set alarms for traffic and health status.
  - name: AWS CloudFormation
    description: Provision Global Accelerator resources using infrastructure templates.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com