AWS Global Infrastructure: Making Apps Fast Worldwide
AWS has data centers everywhere. A handful of services help you actually use them — to route users to the right place, speed up the trip, or bring AWS closer to where the trip ends. The mental map ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ROUTE traffic globally │ │ • Route 53 (DNS — where to send users) │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ CACHE / ACCELERATE content │ │ • CloudFront (CDN — cache at edge) │ │ • S3 Transfer Accel (faster uploads to S3) │ │ • Global Accelerator (faster routes, no cache) │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ EXTEND AWS to other places │ │ • Outposts (AWS racks in your data center) │ │ • WaveLength (AWS in 5G telecom datacenters) │ │ • Local Zones (AWS in metro areas near users) │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Route 53 — global DNS Route 53 translates myapp....