An online gaming company hosts its platform on Amazon EC2 instances behind Network Load Balancers (NLBs) across multiple AWS Regions. The NLBs can route requests to targets over the internet. The company wants to reduce end-to-end load time for its global players. Which solution meets this requirement?

AWS Global Accelerator improves availability and performance for global users by directing traffic through the AWS global network infrastructure. By creating a standard accelerator and configuring the existing Network Load Balancers (NLBs) as target endpoints, the gaming company can route player traffic over the AWS backbone, reducing latency and improving end-to-end load times. Replacing NLBs with Application Load Balancers (ALBs) would not inherently reduce global latency, as ALBs operate at a higher layer (Layer 7) and NLBs (Layer 4) are often preferred for gaming due to their high performance and low latency. Configuring Route 53 to route equally weighted traffic would distribute requests but wouldn't optimize the network path for global users. Creating additional NLBs and EC2 instances in other Regions might help with regional latency but lacks the global network optimization provided by Global Accelerator.