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CloudFront vs AWS Global Accelerator

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Similarities
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  • They both use the AWS global network and its edge locations around the world.
  • Both services integrate with AWS shield for DDoS protection.
  • They both support Anycast Static IP addresses, which allows you to use a single IP address for your application, regardless of where it is hosted.

Differences
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CloudFront
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  • Improves performance for both cacheable cacheable content(such as images and videos) and dynamic content(such as APIs and dynamic site delivery).
  • Content is served at the edge.

Global Accelerator
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  • Improves performance for TCP and UDP traffic.
  • Proxying packets at the edge to applications running in one or more AWS Regions.
  • Good fit for non-HTTP use cases, such as gaming(UDP), IoT(MQTT), or Voice over IP.
  • Good for HTTP use cases that require static IP addresses.