Route53 - Failover Routing Policy Lab

Question 1

Failover routing policies are used when…

Answer 1

…you want to create an active/passive set up. For example, you may want your primary site to be in EU-WEST-2 and your secondary DR site in AP-SOUTHEAST-2

Question 2

What will Route53 do for your primary site?

Answer 2

Monitor the health using a health check, which monitors the health of your end points

Question 3

Failover pictoral

Answer 3

User makes request > primary site health check passes so request routed to primary site> if fails, switches to secondary site

Question 4

Failover policy steps

Answer 4

1. configure health check for primary load balancer
2. configure health check for entire website
3. when you create a record set, specify failover
4. primary or secondary
5. evaluate target health = yes
6. associate w/ existing health check = yes, select health check
7. repeat for secondary but don’t associate it with health check