Route53 - Weighted Routing Policy Lab Flashcards

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Weighted routing pictoral

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

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Weighted routing use case

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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

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

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True

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Is Route53 region-dependent?

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No, it is Global

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To create a weighted record set…

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

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