AWS Global Networking
AWS Tutorial: AWS Global Networking
Welcome to the AWS Global Networking lesson. Now that your servers are securely deployed in a VPC, you need to help internet users find them quickly!
Why Learn Global Networking?
A website is useless if users can't find it. Understanding Domain Name Systems (DNS) and content delivery networks ensures your applications load fast globally and never suffer from routing outages.
Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn about two flagship AWS global networking services:
- Amazon Route 53
- AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It connects user requests (like typing www.google.com) to infrastructure running in AWS (like an Elastic Load Balancer or an S3 bucket).
Route 53 is incredibly powerful. It can perform health checks on your servers and dynamically route traffic away from a server if it detects that the server has crashed!
AWS Global Accelerator
AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that routes user traffic through the private AWS global network instead of the chaotic public internet. This significantly improves the speed and latency of your applications for international users.
Exercise
?Which AWS service provides highly available DNS routing to connect user domain names to backend infrastructure?