Route53 - Latency Routing Policy Lab

Question 1

Latency based routing allows you to route your traffic based on…

Answer 1

…the lowest network latency for your end user (ie which region will give them the fastest response time)

Question 2

To use latency based routing…

Answer 2

…create a latency resource record set for the EC2 or ELB resource in each region that hosts your website

Question 3

When Route53 receives a query for your site…

Answer 3

…it selects the latency resource record set for the region that vies the user the lowest latency. Route53 then responds with the value associated with that record set.

Question 4

Latency based routing pictoral

Answer 4

User makes request to Route53 > Route53 determines that there is a latency of 50 ms to one region and 300 ms to another region. User then routed to region with lowest latency