AWS Global Accelerator pricing varies by region primarily through two components: a fixed hourly fee per accelerator and a Data Transfer-Premium (DT-Premium) fee that depends on the AWS Region serving the request (source) and the AWS edge location where the traffic is directed (destination).
**Fixed Hourly Fee
You are charged a fixed fee of $0.025 per hour for each accelerator you provision in your account, regardless of whether it is enabled or disabled. This fee applies continuously for every full or partial hour the accelerator is running[2][4][6].
**Data Transfer-Premium Fee (DT-Premium)
This fee is charged per gigabyte of data transferred over the AWS network through the accelerator and is additional to the standard EC2 Data Transfer Out fees. The DT-Premium rate depends on the combination of the source AWS Region and the destination AWS edge location. It is charged only on the dominant direction of traffic (either inbound or outbound), whichever is higher during each hour[2][4][6].
The DT-Premium rates vary significantly by region pairs. For example:
- Data transferred from AWS Regions in the United States and Canada to edge locations in Europe costs $0.015 per GB.
- Transfers from the US and Canada to Asia Pacific edge locations cost $0.035 per GB.
- Transfers originating from Asia Pacific regions to other Asia Pacific edge locations can be as low as $0.010 per GB.
- Transfers from Australia to other regions can be higher, for example, $0.070 to $0.101 per GB depending on the destination.
- Middle East and South America sources have their own specific rates ranging roughly from $0.024 to $0.091 per GB depending on destination[2].
The pricing example provided by AWS illustrates that if you have an accelerator running continuously for a month (about 720 hours), the fixed fee would be $18. If you transfer 10,000 GB of data monthly with 60% outbound traffic being dominant, and the majority of that traffic is from North America to Europe and Asia Pacific, your DT-Premium charges would be calculated based on the applicable per-GB rates for those source-destination pairs, resulting in an additional $110 in charges, totaling $128 for the month including the fixed fee[2].
**Summary
- Fixed hourly fee: $0.025 per accelerator per hour.
- DT-Premium fee: Varies by source AWS Region and destination AWS edge location, typically ranging from about $0.010 to $0.105 per GB.
- Charges apply only on the dominant traffic direction per hour.
- Additional standard EC2 Data Transfer Out fees apply on top of DT-Premium.
- Public IPv4 address charges also apply separately.
This regional variation in data transfer pricing reflects the underlying network costs and geographic distances between AWS Regions and edge locations, making it important to consider traffic patterns and regional endpoints when estimating AWS Global Accelerator costs[2][4][6].
Citations:
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/pricing/
[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/introduction-pricing.html
[3] https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/
[4] https://elasticscale.com/reduce-aws-global-accelerator-costs/
[5] https://www.nops.io/glossary/what-is-aws-global-accelerator/
[6] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gametech/modernize-game-backend-services-with-aws-global-accelerator/
[7] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/global-accelerator/latest/dg/global-accelerator-guide.pdf
[8] https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/tip/Compare-AWS-Global-Accelerator-vs-Amazon-CloudFront
[9] https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/lnysm5/how_is_traffic_priced_if_it_originates_from_the/