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by neurostream 2747 days ago
Would there be any benefit of using Global Accelerator and Route53 together?

When a Global Accelerator "instance" is created, it seems like it creates 2 new Public IP addresses per Region ( and then those are then BGP Anycast'ed from the Av.Zones and Edge Locations around that Region). Does this mean that:

GlobalAcceleratorInstance1

Region1:

   PublicIPAddress1

   PublicIPAddress2

 Region2: 

   PublicIPAddress3

   PublicIPAddress4

 Region3:

   PublicIPAddress5

   PublicIPAddress6
?

And will Route53 then allow me to create a record that points to a magic geo/lbr Alias record type to resolve these to some great additional benefit?

Or would the idea be to just create one pair of them in one region near my "origin" IP - and BGP Anycast takes care of the rest and basic DNS A records as usual?