Tag: Failover

Choose Your Route Wisely Much like a roadway, the Internet is subject to congestion and blockage that cause slowdowns and at worst prevent packets from arriving at their destination. Like too many cars jamming themselves onto a highway, too much data over a route on the Internet results in slowdowns. Transatlantic cable breaks have much […]

Route 53 Health Checks provide the ability to verify that endpoints are reachable and that HTTP and HTTPS endpoints successfully respond. However, there are many situations where DNS failover would be useful, but TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS health checks alone can’t sufficiently determine the health of the endpoint. In these cases, it’s possible for an […]