intermediate~2h
Route 53 & DNS Routing
AWS's DNS service — translating domain names to IP addresses, and routing traffic intelligently based on latency, health, or geography.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain how DNS resolution works and where Route 53 fits in
- •Distinguish A, CNAME, and Alias records and when to use each
- •Choose the right routing policy for a given traffic-distribution need
- •Explain how Route 53 health checks enable automatic failover
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