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Route 53 failover routing: Automatic disaster recovery

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Route 53 failover routing: Automatic disaster recovery

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It's 3 a.m. Your primary server just crashed. Users are hitting error pages. Your phone is ringing off the hook. You're scrambling to manually update DNS records to point to your backup server. Every minute of downtime is costing you customers and revenue. What if the failover happened automatically? Your backup server takes over instantly without you lifting a finger. Users never see an error. You wake up to a notification, not an emergency. Route 53 Failover Routing makes this automatic. Configure primary and secondary resources. Route 53 monitors health. When primary fails, traffic instantly moves to secondary. Let's build this safety net. So, what is Route 53 Failover Routing? Failover Routing lets you route traffic to a resource when the resource is healthy or to a different resource when the first resource is unhealthy. The primary and secondary records can route traffic to anything from an Amazon S3 bucket…

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