We are excited to announce that we are now able to serve our product via Anycast Dns powered entirely by Amazon’s AWS cloud. We are the first in industry to do so.
Our Anycast networking approach contrasts the traditional approach by allowing multiple physically separated web servers on the Internet to share the same IP address. Anycast networking prevents the need for setting up Internet datacenter Points of Presence (POPs) and allows Securly to continue to be 100% cloud-based without the need to lease servers from datacenters and manage both private and public clouds across the globe – a practice previous Anycast DNS players had to pick.
A client’s request is taken to the geographically closest or lowest latency server using core Internet Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route advertisements. This eliminates the need for CDNs and extends to protocols such as DNS. While CDNs work well for distribution of cached or static web-content, they do not work well with dynamic web content, and simply do not work with other Internet protocols such as DNS.
The availability of Anycast DNS enables Securly to deliver a number of immediate advantages to their global customer base:
- Simplified deployments: Customers on different clusters no longer have to use different IP addresses.
- Ability to serve ISPs and access point providers who are location agnostic.
- Ability to serve mobile users who may travel internationally.
- Ability to provide fault tolerant uptime even when critical infrastructure fails, by failing over to nearby clusters completely seamless to the customer.
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