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AWS Route 53

Q&A

  • Which of the following Route 53 policies allow you to a) route data to a second resource if the first is unhealthy, and b) route data to resources that have better performance? Failover Routing and Latency-based Routing
  • Route 53 is named so because **the DNS Port is on Port 53 and Route 53 is a DNS service.
  • You have created a new subdomain for your popular website, and you need this subdomain to point to an Elastic Load Balancer using Route 53. Which DNS record should you set? CNAME
  • Route 53 has a soft limit of 50 domains associated with a given account. However, this limited can be increased by contacting AWS support.
  • You are hosting a website and would like visitors from the United Kingdom to see a different site than those in Australia. Would routing policy would help you accommplish this? Geolocation routing policy
  • Your company hosts 10 web servers all serving the same web content in AWS. They want Route 53 to serve traffic to random web servers. Which routing policy will meet this requirement, and provide the best resiliency? Multivalue Routing