AWS Global Accelerator vs Amazon CloudFront

Question 1

Amazon CloudFront is a CDN like CloudFlare and Akamai.

Answer 1

Cloudfront is used to deliver static assets (such as videos, images and files) securely to various devices around the globe with low latnecy

Question 2

AWS Global Accelerator is a service that uses edge locations to look for the optimal pathway from your users to your applications

Question 3

CloudFront uses multiple sets of dynamically changing IP addresses while Global Accelerator will provide you a set of static IP addresses as a fixed entry point to your applications.

Answer 3

CloudFront pricing is mainly based on data transfer out and HTTP requests while Global Accelerator charges a fixed hourly fee and incremental charge over your standard Data Transfer rates, also called a Data Transfer Premium fee (DT-Premium)

Question 4

CloudFront uses Edge Locations to cache content while Global Accelerator uses Edge Locations to find an optimal pathway to the nearest regional endpoint

Answer 4

CloudFront is designed to handle HTTP protocol meanwhile Global Accelerator is best used for both HTTP and non HTTP protocols such as TCP and UDP