This session dives into strategies using AWS Global Accelerator to help you build a high availability architecture for your services on AWS. It will include an overview of our new AWS Global Accelerator, which enables you to manage multi-regional endpoints using static IP addresses anycast from our edge network around the world. You will learn about the service architecture in depth and how AWS Global Accelerator mitigates various failure modes to provide for global resiliency and to reduce cross customer impact.

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AWS Global Accelerator Deep Dive
for Building Highly Available Services
Harvo Jones
Principal Software Engineer
Amazon Web Service, Inc.
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AWS Global Accelerator
Improve availability and performance of applications for global end users
using the AWS Global Network

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Agenda
What have we done?
Building with AWS Global Accelerator
The power in your hands
A peek under the hood

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Three Pillars
Ease of useAvailability
Performance

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Network Path
Region
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
users users

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AWS Global Network

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Network Path
Region
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
users users

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Pillar 1: Performance – Global Network
Region
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
users usersEdge location Edge location

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Network Path - Before

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Network Path - After

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AWS Global Network

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AWS Global Accelerator Setup
Region A
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
users usersEdge location Edge location

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AWS Global Accelerator Setup
Region A
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
users usersEdge location Edge location

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AWS Regions

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Move workload between regions
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Region B
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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Pillar 2: Ease of Use – Static Global IP Addresses
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Region B
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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Application Failure
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Region B
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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Pillar 3: Multi-region Availability
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Region B
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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Global Accelerator Setup – Multi-region active use
Region D
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Region B
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Region A
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Region C
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
users usersEdge location Edge location

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Trifecta Attained
Performance
Ease of useAvailability

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Performance
Ease of useAvailability
Trifecta Attained
Performance
ELB & EIP interconnects extended to the
edge of the AWS backbone network

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Trifecta Attained
Performance
ELB & EIP interconnects extended to the
edge of the AWS backbone network
Ease of Use
Static global IP addresses
Ease of useAvailability
Performance

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Trifecta Attained
Performance
ELB & EIP interconnects extended to the
edge of the AWS backbone network
Ease of Use
Static global IP addresses
Availability
Multi-region network-level availability
Ease of useAvailability
Performance

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Case 1: A New Application
Region
VPC
Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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Case 1: A New Application
Region
VPC
Instances

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Case 1: A New Application
Region
VPC
Instances

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Case 1: A New Application
Region
VPC
Instances
users

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Case 1: A New Application
Region
VPC
Instances
users
reyzell.com Hosted Zone

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Case 1: A New Application
Region
VPC
Instances
users
reyzell.com Hosted Zone

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Case 1: A New Application
Region
VPC
Instances
Static IPs
Endpoints
users
reyzell.com Hosted Zone

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Case 1: A New Application
Region
VPC
Instances
Static IPs
Endpoints
users
reyzell.com Hosted Zone

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Case 2: An Existing Application
Region
VPC
Instances

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Case 2: An Existing Application
Region
VPC
Instances
users
reyzell.com Hosted Zone

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Case 2: An Existing Application
Region
VPC
Instances
users
reyzell.com Hosted Zone
Static IPs
Endpoints

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Case 2: An Existing Application
Region
VPC
Instances
users
reyzell.com Hosted Zone
Static IPs
Endpoints

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AWS Global Accelerator Setup
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region
VPC
Instances

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Case 2: An Existing Application
Region
VPC
Instances
users
reyzell.com Hosted Zone
Static IPs
Endpoints

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Case 3: Going Multi-region
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region
VPC
Instances

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Case 3: Going Multi-region
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances
Region B
VPC
Instances

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Case 3: Going Multi-region
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances
Region B
VPC
Instances

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Case 3: Going Multi-region
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances
Region B
VPC
Instances

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Case 3: Going Multi-region
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances
Region B
VPC
Instances

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AWS Global Accelerator Config
Regional traffic dial

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Regional Traffic Dial
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances
Region A
VPC
Instances

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AWS Global Accelerator Config
Regional traffic dial
Endpoint weights

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Endpoint weights
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Region B
VPC
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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AWS Global Accelerator Config
Regional traffic dial
Endpoint weights
Endpoint health checks

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Endpoint health checks
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Region B
VPC
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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AWS Global Accelerator Config
Regional traffic dial
Endpoint weights
Endpoint health checks
Client affinity

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Client affinity
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Region B
VPC
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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AWS Global Accelerator Config
Regional traffic dial
Endpoint weights
Endpoint health checks
Client affinity

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AWS Global Accelerator Config
Regional traffic dial
Endpoint weights
Endpoint health checks
Client affinity

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The Console

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The Console

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The Console

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The Console

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The Console

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Network Zones
Static IPs

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Network Zones
users users
Static IPs

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Network Zones
users users

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Cellular Architecture

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Shuffle Sharding
Static IPs
• Network Zones
• Cells

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Features to Add
users usersEdge location Edge location
Region A
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address
Region B
VPC
Instances Instance
Elastic IP
Address

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Trifecta
Performance
ELB & EIP interconnects extended to the
edge of the AWS backbone network
Ease of Use
Static global IP addresses
Availability
Multi-region network-level availability
Performance
Ease of useAvailability

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Power in your hands
Regional traffic dial
Endpoint weights
Endpoint health checks
Client affinity

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Harvo Jones
harvo@amazon.com

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