Fastly vs. AWS Global Accelerator

The leading edge cloud platform available today empowers developers, fosters customer connections, and facilitates business growth. Our innovative solution is crafted to enhance both your existing technology and your teams' capabilities. By moving data and applications closer to users at the network's edge, our platform significantly boosts the performance of your websites and applications. Fastly's highly customizable CDN enables you to tailor content delivery right where it's needed most. Users will appreciate having immediate access to the information they seek. Our robust Points of Presence (POPs), equipped with solid-state drives (SSDs), are strategically positioned in well-connected areas across the globe. This setup allows for extended caching periods, minimizing the need to retrieve data from the original source. Instant Purge and batch purging through surrogate keys enable rapid caching and invalidation of dynamic content, ensuring that you can always deliver up-to-date news, inventory levels, and weather updates. With such capabilities, your platform is not only efficient but also adaptable to ever-evolving user demands.

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service aimed at improving the performance, security, and availability of your publicly accessible applications. It provides two static public IP addresses that act as a reliable entry point for multiple application endpoints such as Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Amazon EC2 instances, and elastic IPs. By utilizing the powerful performance and security capabilities of the AWS Global Infrastructure, you can efficiently route user traffic to one of the edge locations offered by Global Accelerator. This configuration allows users to access your application endpoints through static IPs, facilitating deterministic routing that is not reliant on DNS. This setup not only simplifies user access but also ensures stable application performance across various geographic regions. Additionally, it can help in reducing latency, further enhancing the overall user experience.