A Cantrill - Route 53

Question 1

what is multi value routing in R53?

Answer 1

Multivalue answer routing lets you configure Amazon Route 53 to return multiple values, such as IP addresses for your web servers, in response to DNS queries.

You can specify multiple values for almost any record, but multivalue answer routing also lets you check the health of each resource, so Route 53 returns only values for healthy resources

Question 2

What is weighted routing?

Answer 2

Assign a % to each record and traffic will flow to record accordingly

Question 3

What is latency based routing?

Answer 3

If your application is hosted in multiple AWS Regions, you can improve performance for your users by serving their requests from the AWS Region that provides the lowest latency.

Question 4

What is Geolocation routing in R53?

Answer 4

Best for restricting content by content. Or language specific.

In order of 1.State 2.Country 3.Continent… This is NOT about proximity

Question 5

What is Geoproximity in R53?

Answer 5

routes traffic based on distance from request to closest resource. Can set bias towards one region over another.

Question 6

Which type of recordset is generally used to point at AWS resources?

Answer 6

A record + Alias record

Question 7

What type of hosted zone is available only within 1 or more VPCs?

Answer 7

Private hosted zones are available only within 1 or more VPCs