route-53

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.

July 2026: Route 53 hosted zones, latency/geo/failover routing, health checks, and when DNS TTL is not enough — Route 53 Application Recovery Controller for controlled multi-Region cutover.