- A global application is an application deployed in multiple geographies
- On AWS: this could be Regions and / or Edge Locations
- Decreased Latency
- Latency is the time it takes for a network packet to reach a server
- It takes time for a packet from Asia to reach the US
- Deploy your applications closer to your users to decrease latency, better experience
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- If an AWS region goes down (earthquake, storms, power shutdown, politics)...
- You can fail-over to another region and have your application still working
- A DR plan is important to increase the availability of your application
- Attack protection: distributed global infrastructure is harder to attack
AWS Global Infrastructure
- Regions: For deploying applications and infrastructure
- Availability Zones: Made of multiple data centers
- Edge Locations (Points of Presence): for content delivery as close as possible to users
AWS Global Applications
Global DNS: Route 53
- Great to route users to the closest deployment with least latency
- Great for disaster recovery strategies
Global Content Delivery Network (CDN): CloudFront
- Replicate part of your application to AWS Edge Locations - decrease latency
- Cache common requests - improved user experience and decreased latency
S3 Transfer Acceleration
- Accelerate global uploads & downloads into Amazon S3
AWS Global Accelerator:
- Improve global application availability and performance using the AWS global network
Summary
Global DNS: Route 53
- Great to route users to the closest deployment with least latency
- Great for disaster recovery strategies
Global Content Delivery Network (CDN): CloudFront
- Replicate part of your application to AWS Edge Locations - decrease latency
- Cache common requests - improved user experience and decreased latency
S3 Transfer Acceleration
- Accelerate global uploads & downloads into Amazon S3
AWS Global Accelerator
- Improve global application availability and performance using the AWS global network
AWS Outposts
- Deploy Outposts Racks in your own Data Centers to extend AWS services
AWS WaveLength
- Brings AWS services to the edge of the 5G networks
- Ultra-low latency applications
AWS Local Zones
- Bring AWS resources (compute, database, storage,...) closer to your users
- Good for latency-sensitive applications