Standard accelerators in AWS Global Accelerator
A standard accelerator in AWS Global Accelerator directs traffic over the AWS global network to endpoints that you include in specified AWS Regions. Each accelerator includes one or more listeners. A listener processes inbound connections from clients to Global Accelerator, based on the protocol (or protocols) and port (or port range) that you configure.
For standard accelerators, Global Accelerator directs traffic to the optimal regional endpoint based on health, client location, and policies that you configure, which increases the availability of your applications. Endpoints for standard accelerators can be Network Load Balancers, Application Load Balancers, Amazon EC2 instances, or Elastic IP addresses that are located in one AWS Region or multiple Regions.
Important
By default, Global Accelerator provides you with static IP addresses that are associated with your accelerator The IP addresses are assigned to your accelerator for as long as it exists, even if you disable the accelerator and it no longer accepts or routes traffic. However, when you delete an accelerator, you lose the Global Accelerator static IP addresses that are assigned to the accelerator, so that you can no longer route traffic by using them. As a best practice, ensure that you have permissions in place to avoid inadvertently deleting accelerators. You can use IAM policies with Global Accelerator, for example, tag-based permissions, to limit the users who have permissions to delete an accelerator. For more information, see ABAC with Global Accelerator.
This section includes procedures for working with a standard accelerator on the Global Accelerator console. If you want to use API operations with Global Accelerator, see the AWS Global Accelerator API Reference.
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