Global Infrastructure Flashcards
Global Application
Deployed in multiple geographies
Benefit of Global Application
Lower latency
Better experience
DR
Route53
DNS
CloudFront
CDN
Replicate applications to AWS Edge Locations
S3 Transfer Acceleration
Accelerate uploads and downloads to S3
Route 53 Weighted Routing Policies
Load balancing through DNS
Latency Routing Policy
Routes DNS traffic based on users latency
Failover Routing Policy
DNS performs health checks and fails over
How does Cloudfront lower latency?
Apps cached globally
216 points of presence
Cloudfront security benefit
DDOS protection
WAF
Cloudfront Origin services (2)
S3
HTTP
Cloudfront vs. S3 Cross Region Replication
Cloudfront uses Global Edge and Cache
S3 CRR must be set up for each region
S3 Transfer Acceleration
Transfers S3 files internally from one region to another
S3 Transfer Acceleration benefit
Faster transfers
AWS Global Accelerator
Internally route traffic between regions.