AWS Route 53 Routing Policies
Master how Amazon’s DNS service directs global traffic to your endpoints with precision, speed, and reliability.
The Policy Ingredients
What Route 53 considers before making a routing decision
Failover
Uses Health Checks to monitor endpoint status. Routes to Secondary (Passive) only if Primary (Active) is unhealthy.
Disaster Recovery
Geolocation
Routes traffic based on the Physical Location of your users (Continent, Country, or State).
Content Localization
Latency
Routes traffic to the AWS region that provides the Lowest Network Latency for the user.
Performance Optimization
Weighted
Distributes traffic based on Assigned Weights (e.g., 70% to v1, 30% to v2).
A/B Testing & Blue/Green
The Decision
Workflow
Route 53 acts as a high-speed traffic controller. When a DNS query arrives, it evaluates the specific logic of your chosen policy before returning an IP address.
- Query received from Resolver
- Policy logic evaluated
- Health check verification