why would ping and traceroute give you different IP addresses?

[Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com>]

site="download.gluonhq.com"
date
time ping "${site}" -c 4
time traceroute "${site}"

$ site="download.gluonhq.com"
date
time ping "${site}" -c 4
time traceroute "${site}"
Mon 14 Aug 2023 11:54:19 PM UTC
PING s3-website.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (54.231.134.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com (54.231.134.85):
icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=47.8 ms
64 bytes from s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com (54.231.134.85):
icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=54.9 ms
64 bytes from s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com (54.231.134.85):
icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=46.2 ms
64 bytes from s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com (54.231.134.85):
icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=48.1 ms

--- s3-website.us-east-1.amazonaws.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 46.246/49.253/54.875/3.320 ms

real	0m3.186s
user	0m0.005s
sys	0m0.000s

traceroute to download.gluonhq.com (52.216.228.138), 30 hops max, 60
byte packets
 1  _gateway (192.168.68.1)  9.267 ms  9.223 ms  8.035 ms
 2  dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254)  10.349 ms  10.333 ms  10.319 ms
 3  99-178-252-1.lightspeed.stlsmo.sbcglobal.net (99.178.252.1)
33.434 ms  33.420 ms  33.406 ms
 4  71.154.70.113 (71.154.70.113)  34.515 ms  33.379 ms  38.092 ms
 5  * * *
 6  32.130.88.131 (32.130.88.131)  50.165 ms  42.200 ms  35.492 ms
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com (52.216.228.138)  50.960 ms
50.902 ms  53.215 ms

real	0m15.213s
user	0m0.009s
sys	0m0.000s
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