AWS Global Accelerator has a pricing structure that includes a fixed hourly fee and a Data Transfer-Premium fee (DT-Premium)[2][3]. There is a fixed fee of $0.025 for every full or partial hour that an accelerator runs in your account[2]. In a 30-day month, this fixed rate would be $18 per accelerator[2][6].
The DT-Premium depends on the AWS Region (source) that serves the request and the AWS edge location (destination) where the responses are directed[2]. DT-Premium is calculated hourly on the dominant direction of your traffic, whether inbound or outbound[2]. The DT-Premium fee applies to all traffic that flows through AWS Global Accelerator, regardless of whether the destination is to the internet, to another AWS Region, or to an Availability Zone, and is in addition to normal EC2 Data Transfer Out fees charged for your application endpoints running in AWS Region(s)[2].
As of March 2024, there is no information available on whether the price of AWS Global Accelerator has increased[7]. However, AWS has a history of reducing prices, with 107 price decreases between 2006 and October 2023[7].
Citations:
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/pricing/
[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/introduction-pricing.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services
[4] https://hidekazu-konishi.com/entry/aws_history_and_timeline.html
[5] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/WhatsNew.html
[6] https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/tip/Compare-AWS-Global-Accelerator-vs-Amazon-CloudFront
[7] https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/120ecpi/has_anyone_seen_an_increase_in_aws_pricing_for/
[8] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/analyzing-and-visualizing-aws-global-accelerator-flow-logs-using-amazon-athena-and-amazon-quicksight/
[9] https://cloudonaut.io/review-aws-global-accelerator-latency-multi-region-disaster-recovery/
[10] https://www.cloudbolt.io/guide-to-aws-cost-optimization/aws-data-transfer-pricing/