Route 53

  • View your hosted zones
  • Launch three EC2 instances (N. Virginia, London, and Sydney)
  • Simple Routing Policy
    • Verify that AWS uses separate TLDs for DNS servers (for high availablity)
    • Create Record Set
      • Zone Apex Record (naked domain)
        • A > The three IP addresses from the EC2 instances
    • View the A records from a command prompt
    • View the website from a web browser
    • Refresh the browser and verify the web browser returns the same web page
    • Lower the TTL for the A record to one minute
    • Wait six minutes for the change to take effect
    • Refresh the browser and verify it returns a different web page
    • Delete the record set
  • Weighted Routing Policy
    • Create record set
      • A record (zone apex record)
      • TTL (60 seconds)
      • Value (x.x.x.x)
      • Weighted
        • Weight (20, 30, 50)
        • Set ID
    • Review the weights
    • Create health check(s)
      • Endpoint
      • IP address (of EC2 instance)
      • Domain (of website)
      • Path (index.html)
      • Fast
      • Failure attempts (2)
    • Associate with health check
    • Verify health checks are healthy or unhealthy
    • Test the record sets
    • Delete the record set(s)
  • Latency-Based Routing
    • Create record set
      • A record (zone apex record)
      • TTL (60 seconds)
      • Value (x.x.x.x)
      • Routing policy (Latency)
        • Region
        • Set ID
      • Associate with health check
    • Test the record sets
    • Delete the record set(s)
  • Failover Routing Policy
    • Create record set
      • A record (zone apex record)
      • TTL (60 seconds)
      • Value (x.x.x.x)
      • Routing policy (failover)
        • Failover record type (primary)
        • Set ID (primary)
      • Associate with a health check
      • Routing policy (failover)
        • Failover record type (secondary)
        • Set ID (secondary)
    • Test the record sets
    • Delete the record sets
  • Geolocation Routing Policy
    • Create record set
      • A record (zone apex record)
      • TTL (60 seconds)
      • Value (x.x.x.x)
      • Routing policy (geolocation)
        • Location
        • Set ID
      • Associate with health check
      • Routing policy (geolocation)
        • Location
        • Set ID
      • Associate with health check
    • Test record sets
    • Delete record set
  • Multivalue Answer Routing Policy
    • Create record set
      • A record (zone apex record)
      • TTL (60 seconds)
      • Value (x.x.x.x)
      • Routing policy (Multivalue Answer)
        • Set ID
      • Associate with health check
    • Test record sets
    • Delete record sets
    • Terminate EC2 instances