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DNS Failover

DNS Failover

Feb 10, 20261 min read

  • disaster-recovery
  • failover
  • dns

DNS Failover

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Using DNS health checks and routing policies to automatically redirect traffic when a primary endpoint fails. Route53 health checks can trigger failover routing policies to redirect traffic to standby regions. Limited by DNS TTL propagation delays.

Key Properties

  • Health Check Configuration
  • DNS TTL Considerations
  • Failover Routing Policies

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  • Key Properties

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