Managing Global Traffic with Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53, with its robust set of features, plays a pivotal role in managing this global traffic, ensuring that user requests are intelligently routed to the most appropriate endpoints. To manage traffic flow across your applications, you can configure the following key routing policies with Route 53:
- Latency-based routing: This allows you to route traffic to the region with the lowest latency for your end users. Route 53 automatically responds to DNS queries with the IP address of the AWS Region, which provides the fastest response. This is ideal for global services where user experience depends on response times.
- Geolocation routing: Route 53 routes traffic based on the geographic location of your users. This feature is useful for delivering localized content, adhering to legal requirements, or balancing traffic across different regions.
- Geoproximity routing (with traffic flow): Geoproximity routing lets you route...