What is Route 53 Latency Based Routing?

What is Latency Based Routing in this context?

You can create latency records to track your resources across multiple AWS Regions for latency-based routing. It will then determine which region has the lowest latency for the user and select the appropriate latency records for that region.

It is also called Route 53. It is named Route 53 because it refers to TCP port 53, where DNS server queries are addressed. Recursive DNS resolvers using IPv6 networks can either use IPv4 transport or IPv6 transport in order to send DNS queries via Amazon Route 53. Customers can create "hosted zones" which act as a container to host four name servers.

What record was set on Route 53?

Yes. Yes. vpce-svc-03d5ebb7d9579a2b3.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com).

What types of routing policies are available on Amazon Route 53?

Simple routing The most common DNS policy that can accommodate one FQDN (fully qualified Domain Name) or IP address is the simple routing . If you are creating an A record, enter the IP address.

Amazon Route 53 a Route Policies

• Simple.
• Multivalue Solution
• Weighted.
• Latency based.
• Failover.
• Geolocation.