Consistent Performance

• Intelligent routing to lowest latency and fast regional failover
• No issue with client cache (because the IP doesn’t change)
• Internal AWS network

Health Checks

• Global Accelerator performs a health check of your applications
• Helps make your application global (failover less than 1 minute for unhealthy)
• Great for disaster recovery (thanks to the health checks)

Security

• only 2 external IP need to be whitelisted
• DDoS protection thanks to AWS Shield