Document history
The following entries describe important changes made to the AWS Global Accelerator documentation.
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API version: latest
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Latest documentation update: March 27, 2024
| Change | Description | Date |
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| Adds cross-account support for BYOIP | Global Accelerator now supports five additional CloudWatch metrics that you can use to more easily detect issues with your accelerator endpoints. For more information, see Using Amazon CloudWatch with AWS Global Accelerator. | March 27, 2024 |
| Adds cross-account support for BYOIP | Global Accelerator now supports using bring your own IP (BYOIP) addresses across AWS accounts. For more information, see Working with cross-account attachments and resources in AWS Global Accelerator. | March 25, 2024 |
| Adds support for dual-stack for Network Load Balancers | Global Accelerator now supports adding dual-stack Network Load Balancers to standard accelerators. For more information, see Endpoint requirements for accelerators in AWS Global Accelerator. | November 2, 2023 |
| Adds support for cross-account resources | Global Accelerator now supports adding cross-account resources to accelerators. To add permissions for a cross-account resource, you create a cross-account attachment in Global Accelerator. For more information, see Working with cross-account attachments and endpoints in AWS Global Accelerator. | November 1, 2023 |
| Adds support in four AWS Regions | Support in the following AWS Regions has been added for Global Accelerator: Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Israel (Tel Aviv). For more information, see AWS Region availability for AWS Global Accelerator. | September 26, 2023 |
| Updates service linked role | Adds a new permission, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups, to the service. Global Accelerator uses the
permission to identify load balancers with target type ip,
which is not a supported target type for dual-stack load balancer endpoints in Global Accelerator. For more
information, see
Service-linked role for AWS Global Accelerator. |
September 12, 2023 |
| Adds support for client IP address preservation for Network Load Balancers | Global Accelerator now supports enabling client IP address preservation for Network Load Balancers with security groups. For more information, see Adding or updating endpoints with client IP address preservation. | August 22, 2023 |
| Adds IPv6 support for EC2 instances | Global Accelerator now supports adding Amazon EC2 instances to dual-stack accelerators, to enable both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to EC2 endpoints. For a full list of supported endpoint types and more information, see Endpoints for standard accelerators in AWS Global Accelerator. | August 8, 2023 |
| Added a new Region | Global Accelerator now supports Asia Pacific (Jakarta). For a full list of supported Regions, see AWS Region availability for AWS Global Accelerator. | June 15, 2023 |
| Added two new Regions | Global Accelerator now supports Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Middle East (UAE). For a full list of supported Regions, see AWS Region availability for AWS Global Accelerator. | May 23, 2023 |
| Updates service linked role | Adds new permissions, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners and ec2:DescribeAddresses, to the service
linked role for Global Accelerator, to support making listener management decisions for load balancers, based on listener configurations, and to add
Elastic IP address endpoints to accelerators. For more information, see
Service-linked role for
AWS Global Accelerator. |
May 23, 2023 |
| Adds custom routing accelerator quotas | Adds custom routing accelerator quotas. Global Accelerator also has quotas for standard accelerators. For more information, see Quotas for AWS Global Accelerator. | February 13, 2023 |
| Updates the IAM guidance in the guide | Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM. | February 10, 2023 |
Updates for AddEndpoints and RemoveEndpoints |
Global Accelerator now supports adding and removing endpoints separately from using the UpdateEndpointGroup API operation,
by using the new AddEndpoints and RemoveEndpoints API operations.
For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/global-accelerator-actions.html. |
October 20, 2022 |
| Updates for dual-stack accelerators | Global Accelerator now supports dual-stack accelerators. For IPv4, Global Accelerator provides two static IPv4 addresses. For dual-stack, Global Accelerator provides a total of four addresses: two static IPv4 addresses and two static IPv6 addresses. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/what-is-global-accelerator.html. | July 27, 2022 |
| Update to the Global Accelerator existing service-linked role | Global Accelerator added new permissions, ec2:AssignIpv6Addresses and ec2:UnassignIpv6Addresses, to
support IPv6 addresses. For more information, see
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/security-iam-awsmanpol-updates.html. |
November 2, 2021 |
| Added new CloudWatch metrics | Global Accelerator has added two new CloudWatch metrics. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/cloudwatch-monitoring.html. | October 28, 2021 |
| Update to the flow logs capture window | Global Accelerator has expanded the flow log capture window from 10 seconds to 60 seconds. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/monitoring-global-accelerator.flow-logs.html. | July 30, 2021 |
| Update to the Global Accelerator existing service-linked role | Global Accelerator added a new permission, ec2:DescribeRegions, to allow Global Accelerator to get AWS Region information
to help diagnose errors. For more information, see
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/security-iam-awsmanpol-updates.html. |
May 7, 2021 |
| Added custom routing accelerators | Global Accelerator introduced a new type of accelerator custom routing accelerators. Custom routing accelerators work well for scenarios where you want to use custom application logic to direct one or more users to a specific destination and port among many, while still gaining the performance benefits of Global Accelerator. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/work-with-custom-routing-accelerators.html. | December 9, 2020 |
| Added port overrides support | Global Accelerator now supports overriding the listener port used for routing traffic to endpoints so you can reroute traffic to specific ports on your endpoints. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/about-endpoint-groups-port-override.html. | October 21, 2020 |
| Added two new Regions | Global Accelerator now supports Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan). For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/preserve-client-ip-address.regions.html. | May 20, 2020 |
| Tagging and BYOIP | This release adds support for adding tags to accelerators and bringing your own IP address to AWS Global Accelerator (BYOIP). For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/tagging-in-global-accelerator.html and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/using-byoip.html. | February 27, 2020 |
| Updated Security chapter | Added content for compliance, resilience, and infrastructure security. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/security.html. | December 20, 2019 |
| Support for EC2 instances and default DNS name | AWS Global Accelerator now supports adding EC2 instances in supported AWS Regions. In addition, Global Accelerator creates a default DNS name that is mapped to the static IP addresses for your accelerator. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/introduction-how-it-works-client-ip.html and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/about-accelerators.html#about-accelerators.dns-addressing. | October 29, 2019 |
| Client IP address preservation for Application Load Balancers | You can now choose to have AWS Global Accelerator preserve the client IP address for Application Load Balancers in supported AWS Regions. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/introduction-how-it-works-client-ip.html. | August 28, 2019 |
| Release of AWS Global Accelerator service | The AWS Global Accelerator Developer Guide provides information about setting up and using accelerators—network layer traffic managers—that improve availability and performance for your internet applications that have a global audience. | November 26, 2018 |
