Route 53 Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet is based on the AWS Certified Developer Associate walk through by Andrew Brown. Originally I wrote down the cheat sheet from his presentation. However, I thought maybe others might have a use for the same cheat sheet in a searchable format. I really encourage you to watch his walk through over at YouTube.

• Route 53 - is a DNS provider, DNS register and DNS manager. Route 53 is similar to GoDaddy and NameCheap
• Simple Routing - Default routing policy, multiple addresses result in a random endpoint selection
• Weight Routing - Split up traffic based on different weights in percentage
• Latency Based Routing - Directs traffic based on region to achieve the lowest possible latency for the users
• Failover Routing - Primary site in one location, secondary data recovery site in another. The failover will change based on health checks
• Geolocation Routing - Route traffic based on the geographic location of a requests origin
• Geo-proximity Routing - Route traffic based on the geographic location using Bias values. Route 53 Traffic Flow is required for this to work
• Multi-value Answer Routing - return multiple values in response to DNS queries (using health checks)
• Traffic Flow - visual editor for chaining routing policies. Can version policy records for easy rollback
• AWS Alias Record - AWS smart DNS record, detecs change IPs for AWS resources and adjust automatically
• Route 53 Resolver - Lets you regionally route DNS queries between your VPCs and your network Hybrid Environments
• Health checks can be created to monitory and automatically fail over to another endpoint. You can have health checks monitor other health checks

Credits

Andrew Brown from ExamPro