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Also Known As
Limelight Content Delivery, Limelight Orchestrate Delivery, Limelight Origin Storage
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Overview

AWS Global Accelerator is a service that improves the availability and performance of your applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such as your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers or Amazon EC2 instances.

AWS Global Accelerator uses the AWS global network to optimize the path from your users to your applications, improving the performance of your TCP and UDP traffic. AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and redirects traffic to healthy endpoints in less than 30 seconds.

Edgio helps build and deliver secure web apps across the globe in milliseconds. Our fully programmable edge network offers comprehensive services to maximize security, performance availability and site operations. 

All services run at the edge of our private, global network with 250 Tbps of bandwidth capacity. We process 5% of all web traffic and are rapidly growing. Edgio is trusted and relied on by TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach.

We offer two best-of-breed CDN services, depending on your needs:

Global CDN: Ranked as one of the fastest and largest CDNs on earth – our private global network gives you the reliability, bandwidth, and compute capacity to support the most demanding media and software downloads worldwide.

Next-Gen Web CDN: Natively unify fundamental web application services for protection, acceleration, and development. Our web CDN enables better coordination, management and visibility across your web and API properties. 

Sample Customers
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach
Top Industries
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Computer Software Company22%
Financial Services Firm11%
University6%
Manufacturing Company6%
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Computer Software Company16%
Manufacturing Company13%
Financial Services Firm10%
Healthcare Company9%
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Small Business21%
Midsize Enterprise12%
Large Enterprise66%
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Small Business23%
Midsize Enterprise16%
Large Enterprise62%
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AWS Global Accelerator is ranked 8th in CDN while Edgio Global CDN is ranked 13th in CDN with 1 review. AWS Global Accelerator is rated 0.0, while Edgio Global CDN is rated 9.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Edgio Global CDN writes "A CDN solution to enhance loading times and streamline navigation". AWS Global Accelerator is most compared with Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and Windows Azure CDN, whereas Edgio Global CDN is most compared with Fastly, Fortinet FortiDDoS, Verizon EdgeCast, Cloudflare and Amazon CloudFront.

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