AWS Global Accelerator Latency: Direct Connect Troubleshooting

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Latency spikes in an AWS Global Accelerator setup with Direct Connect are notoriously hard to pin down — this episode walks through a structured troubleshooting approach including VPC Flow Logs analysis. You'll learn: How to isolate whether latency originates at the Global Accelerator edge, the Direct Connect path, or inside the VPC Reading VPC Flow Logs to identify packet loss, retransmits, and asymmetric routing across regions Using CloudWatch Network Monitor and AWS Health events to correlate inter-region degradation Common Direct Connect BGP misconfiguration gotchas that cause intermittent spikes rather than full outages When to escalate to AWS Support with the right data already gathered Keywords: AWS Global Accelerator troubleshooting, Direct Connect latency, VPC Flow Logs analysis, inter-region latency AWS, BGP misconfiguration AWS 🎧 Listen, then go deeper — DevOps & Cloud interview-prep ebooks at DevOpsInterview.Cloud

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Latency spikes in an AWS Global Accelerator setup with Direct Connect are notoriously hard to pin down — this episode walks through a structured troubleshooting approach including VPC Flow Logs analysis.You'll learn:How to isolate whether latency originates at the Global Accelerator edge, the Direct Connect path, or inside the VPCReading VPC Flow Logs to identify packet loss, retransmits, and asymmetric routing across regionsUsing CloudWatch Network Monitor and AWS Health events to correlate inter-region degradationCommon Direct Connect BGP misconfiguration gotchas that cause intermittent spikes rather than full outagesWhen to escalate to AWS Support with the right data already gatheredKeywords: AWS Global Accelerator troubleshooting, Direct Connect latency, VPC Flow Logs analysis, inter-region latency AWS, BGP misconfiguration AWS🎧 Listen, then go deeper — DevOps & Cloud interview-prep ebooks at DevOpsInterview.Cloud

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