Route 53

Route 53 is a scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service designed to route end users to Internet applications by translating names into IP addresses. It connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS.

Route policies

Route 53 supports the following routing policies:

• Simple routing policy: Use when you have a single resource that performs a given function for your domain, such as a web server that serves content for the example.com website.
• Weighted routing policy: Use when you want to route traffic to multiple resources in proportions that you specify. For example, you might want to route 10% of your traffic to one group of servers and 90% to another group.
• Latency routing policy: Use when you have resources in multiple AWS Regions and you want to route traffic to the region that provides the best latency.
• Failover routing policy: Use when you want to configure active-passive failover.
• Geolocation routing policy: Use when you want to route traffic based on the location of your users.
• Geoproximity routing policy: Use when you want to route traffic based on the location of your resources and, optionally, shift traffic from resources in one location to resources in another.
• Multivalue answer routing policy: Use when you want Route 53 to respond to DNS queries with up to eight healthy records selected at random.