Route53 CheatSheet

• Route53 is a DNS service like NameCheap with more synergies with AWS Services

• Simple Routing - the most basic routing policies in Route53 Default Policy

• Weighted Routing - Let you split up traffic based on different weights assigned.

• Latency based Routing Policies - Allows you to direct traffic based on the lowest network latency possible for your end-user based on region.

• Failover Routing Policies - Allow you to create active/passive setups in situations where you want a primary site in one location, and secondary date site in another

• Geolation Routing Policies - Allows you to direct traffic based on the geographic location of where the request originated

• Geoproximity Routing Policies - Allows you to direct traffic based on the geographic locatin of your users, and your AWS resources.

• Multi-Value Answer Policies let you configure Route53 to return multiple values such as IP addresses for your web-servers, in response to DNS queries.

• Traffic Flow - A visual editor lets you create sophisticated routing configurations for your resources using existing routing types.

• AWS Alias Record - AWSs smart DNS record, detects changed IPs for AWS resources and adjusts automatically

• Route53 Resolver - A regional service that lets you route DNS queries between your VPCs and your network

• Health checks can be created to monitor and automatically cover endpoints. you can have health checks monitor other health checks.

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