Route 53

Question 1

What is route 53?

Answer 1

A managed authoritative dnd provider (you can change dns records)

A Domain registrar

Question 2

What does a dns record consist of?

Answer 2

• domain/subdomain name
• record type (A, AAAA, CNAME, NS)
• Routing Policy
• TTL

Question 3

How can you handle AWS hostname through dns?

Answer 3

• cname (hostname to other hostname)

- alias (hostname to aws resource)

Question 4

What are the supported route 53 routing policies?

Answer 4

• simple
• weighted
• failover
• latency based
• geolocation
• multi-value-answer
• geoproximity

Question 5

How does the simple routing policy behave?

Answer 5

routes traffic to a single resource

Question 6

How does the weighted routing policy behave?

Answer 6

routes the percentage of requests to the specified resource

Question 7

How does the latency based routing policy behave?

Answer 7

Redirect to the resource that

has the least latency close to the user

Question 8

How does the geolocation routing policy behave?

Answer 8

routes based on user location

Question 9

How does the geoproximity routing policy behave?

Answer 9

Route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of users and
resources