Routing Policies

Question 1

What is the Simple Routing Policy?

Answer 1

One record, multiple IP addresses. The user will be routed to an IP address in a random order.

Question 2

What is a weighted routing policy?

Answer 2

Allows you to specify what percentage of requests go to each IP address.
20% -> us-east-1
80% -> us-west-1

Question 3

What is latency based routing?

Answer 3

Routes requests to the destination with the lowest response time.

Question 4

What is failover routing policy?

Answer 4

Used for active/passive failover. If the active site goes down, requests will be routed to the secondary destination.

Question 5

What is geolocation routing policy?

Answer 5

Lets you choose routing destination based on the geographical request origin.

Question 6

What is multivalue answer routing?

Answer 6

Allows you to create multiple record sets for the same URL, each routing to the IP address(es) that you define.

Question 7

How would you set up a multivalue record set to ensure it doesn’t send requests to an unresponsive destination?

Answer 7

Setup a Route 53 health check monitoring. It will remove the record if the destination becomes unresponsive.