Route 53 Flashcards
What is an A Name
Alias Record
Can an A Record map on to a naked domain name?
Yes
Can an A Record map onto a naked domain name?
Yes
Can a CNAME
Can a CNAME map on to a naked domain name?
No
What is an SOA Record?
Start Of Authority Record
Where your DNS starts
What is a CNAME Record?
A record that lets you route one domain to another.
What is an NS Record?
What is a CNAME Record?
A record that lets you route one domain name to another.
What is an NS Record?
Name Server Record
Where you domain name is stored
What is an A Record?
Address record it allows you to associate a name to an IP Address.
What is a Simple Routing Policy?
If you choose a simple routing policy you can only have one record with multiple IP Addresses. If you specify multiple values in a record, Route 53 returns all values to the user in a random order.
What is a Simple Routing Policy?
If you choose a simple routing policy you can only have one record with multiple IP Addresses. If you specify multiple values in a record, Route 53 returns all values to the user in a random order.
What is a Weighted Routing Policy?
A policy where you can split the percentage of traffic between multiple regions / IP’s
What happens if a Route 53 Health Check fails?
The record will be removed from Route 53 until is passes the health check.
Can you set an SNS notification to alert you on a failed health check?
Yes
What is the Failover Routing Policy?
If you have an active and passive site it will send all traffic to passive when your active site fails
What is a Geolocation Routing Policy?
When you need to send people to a location based on their geo location
What is Route 53 Traffic Flow?
A product that allows you to customize the routing of your IP’s
What is geoproximity routing?
Lets Amazon Route 53 route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of users and your resources.
What is a bias in Route53 Geoproximity routing?
The ability to route more or less traffic to a geolocation. a bias shrinks or expands the size of the geographic region from which traffic is routed to a resource
Can you use Geoproximity routing without Route 53 Traffic Flow?
No
What is latency based routing?
A routing option that will check the users latency on endpoints and choose the one with the least amount of latency.
What is Multivalue Answer Routing?
Its simple routing with health checks
