Amazon Web Services

Amazon Route 53

Definition

AWS's scalable, highly available DNS service. It registers domains, resolves DNS, and routes traffic using policies: Simple, Weighted, Latency-based, Failover, Geolocation, Geoproximity.

Exam context

On CLF-C02 this is AWS's DNS service. SAA-C03 goes deeper into routing policies for high availability and latency. Question: route 90% of traffic to version A and 10% to version B → Weighted routing.

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