Amazon Route 53: Health Checks and DNS Failover

[@antoni_vitor]

Excellent video! Thank you for your teachings.

[@stormitcloud]

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[@grahamschuckman3483]

Great tutorial video. I love that you showed exactly what was going on in the console and explained the difference between active-active and active-passive. Perhaps some future videos could cover the other five Route 53 routing options?

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[@softwaresolutions3224]

Excellent Video, exactly what I was looking for though, some of the details about the type of Load Balancer and how to set it up as well as Auto Scaling are left out so looking for other videos to fill up those gaps. Any suggestions?

[@stormitcloud]

Hi, I'm not sure what you're looking for, but you might want to check out my other video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bF7JmX6Jr8qDiMU or visit our blog post at www.stormit.cloud/blog/cloudfront-distribution-for-amazon-ec2-alb/ or if you want to learn more about Auto Scaling - www.stormit.cloud/blog/aws-auto-scaling/. In the video and in the blog post, there's one additional component - CloudFront CDN, but it still delves deeper into the setup of the ALB (Application Load Balancer) and more. If you're still encountering issues, please don't hesitate to contact us for consultation via www.stormit.cloud/contact/.

[@charlesuneze]

Amazing, thank you, sir!

[@stormitcloud]

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[@anuroopchakravarthi6897]

Hi, can we use nlb DNS in primary health check?

[@stormitcloud]

Hi, thank you for your question. Yes, you should be able to create a Route 53 health check for a Network Load Balancer. Could you please provide your exact use case for this?

[@jackdaniel4936]

Hello sir, thanks for great explanation. I have a working project in aws kubernates in ec2 machines which have a health check returns health status of my service. I just want to know when my project crashed send email to project admins. What should i do for this? I saw Aws Cloudwatch, Aws Route 53, Aws SNS, but i dont know what is thesee all? Can you give me a suggestion please? Thank you

[@stormitcloud]

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[@hrishikeshkholamkar7104]

Hello sir Can we implement same for two s3 static website using 2 cloud front distributions?

[@stormitcloud]

Hi, thank you for your comment. I would probably need to understand better what you are trying to achieve because health checks + DNS failover are usually necessary for services that may experience unexpected downtime. Amazon S3 and CloudFront is a highly available service, so it shouldn't have major downtime. However, to answer your question, I believe you should definitely be able to check what you are describing via Route 53 Health Checks, but it might be unnecessary. You can contact us for a deeper technical consultation if you need a better understanding. Have a nice day.

[@RameshBabu-mp9py]

Sir, I have RDS Mysql Primary and secondary. Now I want to create DNS failover for my RDS endpoint. Could you please help me?

[@stormitcloud]

Hi Ramesh, it seems that you are using the Multi-AZ deployment option for RDS. With this option, failover occurs automatically. If you are not currently utilizing the Multi-AZ option, I would highly recommend implementing it to achieve high availability. If you have any other specific goals in mind, please don't hesitate to contact us at www.stormit.cloud/contact/ for a consultation.

[@RameshBabu-mp9py]

@@stormitcloud I have enabled MultiAZ for the primary.. As part of high availability testing, I have temporarily stopped/rebooted primary, where application is not accessible until rds comes up. Basically, I am looking to automatically switch the rds instance from primary to replica instance whenever primary has issue.