Global Load Balancing with Amazon Route 53 and NGINX Plus
Global Load Balancing with Amazon Route 53 and NGINX Plus In a classic study, the retail division of Amazon tested various page load times and found that revenue dropped 1% for each additional 100 milliseconds it took for a page to load. It’s no surprise that application performance directly impacts revenue, as customers increasingly expect instant access from anywhere to the applications they depend on. With the amount of competition in today’s digital economy, customers can quickly and easily move to a competitor if your site doesn’t meet their expectations. Global load balancing (GLB) – also called global server load balancing or GSLB – improves load times by directing end users to the copy of a resource that is closest to them (where “closest” is usually measured in terms of network latency). A lot of our customers that host applications in Amazon Web Services [ more… ]