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Global acceleration for Internet applications

This solution accelerates Internet applications across industries by speeding up network access and improving stability. Using Alibaba Cloud's global network and centralized IT management, the solution enables nearby access and cross-region deployments, enhances availability and performance, and provides secure acceleration for your applications.

Intended customers

Businesses that require fast and reliable access for global users

Businesses with a global presence that require a comprehensive acceleration service

Advantages

Benefits

By using a global network of nodes and smart routing, this solution reduces latency and boosts stability for international access, markedly enhancing the access experience for users worldwide.

Accelerate applications

Accelerates applications from the nearest access point. Use dynamic routing and traffic steering to automatically calculate the optimal transmission path.

Enhance security

Sends traffic securely through GA network with no Internet exposure. Uses security services to protect cloud environments and applications from threats.

Enterprise-grade reliability

Deliver enterprise-grade reliability and high availability. Uses protocol-based health checks to perform DNS failover and achieve disaster recovery.

Architecture and deployment

Global acceleration for Internet applications

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Use Alibaba Cloud DNS to resolve your custom domain name to the CNAME of the GA instance whose listeners route traffic to a Network Load Balancer (NLB) instance. The NLB instance performs load balancing for the backend services. The following figure shows the environment of the website built on Alibaba Cloud after a default deployment. During actual deployment, you can modify some settings based on your resource plan, but the resulting environment will be similar to the one shown here.

40 minutes

USD 0.3(This cost assumes that you select the lowest-spec resources and run them for no more than 1 hour. Some instances may not be available for purchase, which means you must adjust specifications. The actual costs will vary based on the specifications, versions, and configurations you select. For accurate billing, please refer to the final cost in the console.)

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Global Accelerator Server Load Balancer Elastic Compute Service

Use cases

Use cases

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Websites and applications

Delivers fast and secure access to VPCs by deploying acceleration nodes, regardless of where your domain name is registered.

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SaaS services

Provides acceleration for enterprise applications, such as Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce, SAP, Workday, G Suite, and Zoom.

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Convert IPv6 to IPv4

Connects to IPv6 clients with IPv6 capabilities. Translates the IPv6 addresses to IPv4 addresses and forwards the traffic to backend IPv4 applications.

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