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# Global accelerator

[FAQs](https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/faqs/) |

## Overview

* Helps you improve the availability and *<mark style="color:red;background-color:yellow;">performance</mark>* of the applications that you offer to your global users.
* Always routes user traffic to the *optimal endpoint* based on performance.
* Allows you to migrate *<mark style="color:red;">existing IP</mark>* addresses to **AWS Global Accelerator**. -> allow using existing IP addresses.
* Is an Add-on services of [ELB](/aws/services/compute/ec2/elb.md).

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## Features

### Static IPs

* For IPv4, Global Accelerator provides <mark style="color:red;">2</mark> global static IPv4 addresses.&#x20;
* For dual-stack, Global Accelerator provides a total of <mark style="color:red;">4</mark> global static IP addresses: two IPv4 addresses and two IPv6 addresses.

## Trivia

* Primarily used for accelerating TCP and UDP traffic, such as gaming and real-time applications, rather than serving static media files.