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Route 53 geoproximity routing: Route traffic by location with bias control

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Route 53 geoproximity routing: Route traffic by location with bias control

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You have servers in Virginia and Frankfurt. Users in France are slightly closer to Frankfurt. But your Frankfurt server is more powerful with extra capacity. You want to pull more European traffic to Frankfurt, even from areas closer to Virginia. With geolocation, you can't do this. Users route strictly by their location. With latency, you can't control it. Route 53 decides based on network speed. You need something that routes by proximity but lets you shift the boundaries. Route 53, Geoproximity. Routing gives you this control. Route by geographic proximity, then use bias to expand or shrink your coverage area. Let's set it up. So what is Route 53 Geoproximity routing? Geoproximity routing lets Route 53 route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of your users and your resources. You can optionally choose to route more traffic or less to a given resource by specifying a value known as a bias. A bias…

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