Route53 - Weighted Routing Policy Lab

Question 1

Weighted routing pictoral

Answer 1

User makes DNS request > request hits Route53 > send a percentage of traffic to one region, send another percentage of traffic to another

Question 2

Weighted routing use case

Answer 2

Business in California. 80% of orders come from California, so route 80% of traffic to US-WEST-1. However, some orders are mail order throughout the US, so maybe send 20% of traffic to US-EAST-1.

Performing A and B testing for a website, ie flip production website to a new site. Continue to send most of users to new site, while send some to the new site for testing

Question 3

T/F: You can perform weighted routing in different regions or the same region.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Is Route53 region-dependent?

Answer 4

No, it is Global

Question 5

To create a weighted record set…

Answer 5

…you actually need to create 2 record sets, set separate endpoints, and assign weights to each.