To improve the performance of a high-traffic web application, you want to use 'AWS Global Accelerator' to route traffic to the closest healthy endpoint. How does Global Accelerator handle health checks?

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Correct Answer: It continuously monitors the health of endpoints and automatically redirects traffic to healthy ones

Global Accelerator has its own health check mechanism that works in tandem with the global Anycast routing....

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To improve the performance of a high-traffic web application, you want to use 'AWS Global Accelerator' to route traffic to the closest healthy endpoint. How does Global Accelerator handle health checks?

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It continuously monitors the health of endpoints and automatically redirects traffic to healthy ones

Why This Answer Is Correct

Global Accelerator has its own health check mechanism that works in tandem with the global Anycast routing.

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