AWS Addresses Performance Instability with AWS Global Accelerator

Yesterday, at re:Invent 2018, Amazon made a plethora of announcements ranging from a new base-station as a service (AWS Ground Station) to introducing re:Inforce, a new security conference. But one announcement stood out in particular—the unveiling of AWS Global Accelerator—their plan to allow AWS customers to ride their private backbone… for a price. With this announcement, AWS joins a host of other public cloud providers that also are monetizing their backbones — an interesting new trend for those keeping track of key differentiators between the various providers.