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Route 53 latency routing: Send users to the fastest server

Route 53 latency routing: Send users to the fastest server - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Route 53 latency routing: Send users to the fastest server

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Your application is running in three AWS regions, U.S. East, Europe, and Asia. A user in Brazil connects to your site. Which server should they hit? The geographically closest one in U.S. East? Not necessarily. Network conditions change constantly. Sometimes the path to Europe is actually faster, even though it's farther away. Route 53. Latency Routing solves this by measuring actual network performance and automatically sending each user to whichever server responds fastest for them right now, not based on distance, not based on geography, based on real-world speed. Let's show you how to give every user the fastest possible experience. So what is Route 53 Latency Routing? If your application is hosted in multiple AWS regions, you can improve performance for your users by serving their requests from the AWS region that provides the lowest latency. Latency routing measures how fast network connections are between users and your…

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