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# Global Accelerator Accelerator

An AWS Global Accelerator Accelerator is a networking resource that improves the availability and performance of applications with global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as fixed entry points to your application endpoints across multiple AWS Regions. Traffic is routed through the AWS global network to the optimal endpoint based on health, geography, and routing policies, ensuring low latency and high availability.

```
aws.globalaccelerator_accelerator
```

## Fields

| Title               | ID   | Type       | Data Type                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Description |
| ------------------- | ---- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| _key                | core | string     |
| accelerator_arn     | core | string     | The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the accelerator.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| account_id          | core | string     |
| created_time        | core | timestamp  | The date and time that the accelerator was created.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| dns_name            | core | string     | The Domain Name System (DNS) name that Global Accelerator creates that points to an accelerator's static IPv4 addresses. The naming convention for the DNS name for an accelerator is the following: A lowercase letter a, followed by a 16-bit random hex string, followed by .awsglobalaccelerator.com. For example: a1234567890abcdef.awsglobalaccelerator.com. If you have a dual-stack accelerator, you also have a second DNS name, DualStackDnsName, that points to both the A record and the AAAA record for all four static addresses for the accelerator: two IPv4 addresses and two IPv6 addresses. For more information about the default DNS name, see Support for DNS addressing in Global Accelerator in the Global Accelerator Developer Guide. |
| dual_stack_dns_name | core | string     | The Domain Name System (DNS) name that Global Accelerator creates that points to a dual-stack accelerator's four static IP addresses: two IPv4 addresses and two IPv6 addresses. The naming convention for the dual-stack DNS name is the following: A lowercase letter a, followed by a 16-bit random hex string, followed by .dualstack.awsglobalaccelerator.com. For example: a1234567890abcdef.dualstack.awsglobalaccelerator.com. Note: Global Accelerator also assigns a default DNS name, DnsName, to your accelerator that points just to the static IPv4 addresses. For more information, see Support for DNS addressing in Global Accelerator in the Global Accelerator Developer Guide.                                                              |
| enabled             | core | bool       | Indicates whether the accelerator is enabled. The value is true or false. The default value is true. If the value is set to true, the accelerator cannot be deleted. If set to false, accelerator can be deleted.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| events              | core | json       | A history of changes that you make to an accelerator in Global Accelerator.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ip_address_type     | core | string     | The IP address type that an accelerator supports. For a standard accelerator, the value can be IPV4 or DUAL_STACK.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ip_sets             | core | json       | The static IP addresses that Global Accelerator associates with the accelerator.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| last_modified_time  | core | timestamp  | The date and time that the accelerator was last modified.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| name                | core | string     | The name of the accelerator. The name must contain only alphanumeric characters or hyphens (-), and must not begin or end with a hyphen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| status              | core | string     | Describes the deployment status of the accelerator.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| tags                | core | hstore_csv |