Tag: route-53

Cloud Architecture

May 14, 2026 · Palaniappan P · 5 min read

AWS Global Accelerator vs CloudFront & Route 53 (2026)

Global Accelerator charges about $0.025 per provisioned accelerator per hour—even while disabled—and adds Data Transfer-Premium on top of normal data transfer. Two static Anycast IPv4 addresses (or four addresses in dual-stack: two IPv4 and two IPv6) front ALBs, NLBs, EC2, or EIPs across Regions; that pricing model changes whether you beat CloudFront or Route 53 latency records alone.

Cloud Architecture

Feb 21, 2026 · Palaniappan P · 10 min read

AWS Route 53: DNS and Traffic Management Patterns

Route 53 is the part of your stack everyone forgets is part of your stack — until DNS goes wrong. Hosted zones, routing policies, health checks, DNS failover, and the traffic management patterns that keep applications available when something else breaks.