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Route 53 geolocation routing: Direct traffic by user location

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Route 53 geolocation routing: Direct traffic by user location

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You run a global e-commerce site. Users in Europe need to see prices in euros and comply with GDPR regulations. Users in the US need prices in dollars and different privacy policies. Users in Japan need the site in Japanese with yen pricing. Managing all this with one server or manually redirecting users? That's a nightmare. Route 53. Geolocation routing solves this automatically. It looks at where your users are located and sends them to the right server for their region. European users get European servers. US users get US servers. All automatic. All based on their geographic location. Let's show you how to set this up. So, what is Route 53 geolocation routing? Geolocation routing lets you direct traffic based on where your users are located. When someone queries your domain name, Route 53 checks where that query came from geographically. European query, send to European server. Asian query, direct to Asian server.…

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