AWS Global Accelerator
- Free allowance
- No free tier is listed.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 0.01/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | No free tier is listed. For every full or partial hour when an accelerator runs in your account, you are charged $0.025 until it is deleted. unit none; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 18 per month plus USD 0.015 per GB |
| Limits | |
| Binding | none No byte cap exists: cost is linear in GB. At 1 TiB/month the bill is about USD 34 and nothing throttles. |
| Identity | card An AWS account with a payment method; there is no free-tier accelerator. |
| Egress | Unmetered in the sense that nothing is capped: USD 0.025 per accelerator-hour plus DT-Premium of USD 0.015/GB for the first 10 TB from United States and Canada or Europe. 1 TiB/month is 1,099.5 GB at USD 0.015, about USD 16.49, plus USD 18 of fixed fee.; ingress: tcp+udp free allowance: none published |
| Interface | rest, cli accelerators, listeners, endpoint groups and endpoints, created through the console, CLI or API |
| Tooling | AWS console, CLI or API; an NLB or EC2 instance as the endpoint |
| Composes with | only with an AWS origin, so it does not chain with a free VM from another cloud |
| Reliability | TCP fragments are dropped at the edge because the AWS network does not support them; UDP fragments are forwarded |
| Notes | The cleanest documented UDP anycast and the only one with a published per-GB rate, but the endpoint list is AWS-only, so a free VM on Oracle or GCP cannot be the origin. Compared with Gcore (EUR 17/month flat) it is cheaper at low volume and has no rule model, but it buys reachability into AWS, which the VM already had. |
| Evidence note | documented Anycast, UDP fragment forwarding, the endpoint types and the two rates are quoted from pages read. A measured claim would need an accelerator created and a UDP listener counted. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/introductio | The static IP addresses are anycast from the AWS edge network. Global Accelerator forwards UDP fragments to the configured endpoint, which reassembles the original IP packet. |
| 2026-10-23 | docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/about-endpo | Endpoints for standard accelerators can be Network Load Balancers, Application Load Balancers, Amazon EC2 instances, or Elastic IP addresses |
| 2026-10-23 | aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/pricing/ | We are charged $0.025 per accelerator-hour, and DT-Premium is $0.015/GB for the first 10 TB from United States & Canada and Europe |
More fields 7
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"wg_path": "inside-udp",
"wg_detail": "Global Accelerator forwards UDP fragments to the configured endpoint, so a WireGuard listener on an EC2 instance behind it is reachable on the listener port.",
"ingress": "tcp+udp",
"volume_tib_month": null,
"volume_stated": "Unmetered in the sense that nothing is capped: USD 0.025 per accelerator-hour plus DT-Premium of USD 0.015/GB for the first 10 TB from United States and Canada or Europe. 1 TiB/month is 1,099.5 GB at USD 0.015, about USD 16.49, plus USD 18 of fixed fee.",
"bytes_transit": "yes",
"transit_note": "traffic enters the AWS global network at the nearest edge and exits to the endpoint"
}Unknown values 2
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