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58. Route 53 DNS failover
Configuring DNS failover and health checks for automating regional failover.
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AWS / Terraform & CLI
Route 53 DNS failover
Automatically switch DNS records to a healthy endpoint when a primary region or instance fails.
"I want my website to stay reachable even if an entire region goes down."
Route 53 failover uses health checks plus DNS record configurations (primary/secondary or weighted with health) to automatically direct traffic to a standby endpoint when the primary is unhealthy.
"I want my website to stay reachable even if an entire region goes down."
Route 53 failover uses health checks plus DNS record configurations (primary/secondary or weighted with health) to automatically direct traffic to a standby endpoint when the primary is unhealthy.