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Route 53 routing policies

Route 53 routing policies - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Route 53 routing policies

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- [Instructor] There are different types of Amazon Route 53 routing policies that you can use in your architecture. These routing policies are simple, failover, geolocation, geoproximity, latency, multivalue answer, weighted, and other policy types. In this lecture, we'll talk about each of these types and discuss its suitable use cases. Let's first discuss the simple routing policy. This is commonly used for a single resource that performs a straightforward function for your domain records. For example, you can use this policy to route traffic from the tutorialsdojoo.com Apex domain to an NGINX web server that is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. This policy doesn't come with a health check, unlike the other routing types. It's just establishing a one-to-one relationship between the DNS record and the target. The second is called the failover routing policy. As the name implies, you can use this policy to set up an…

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