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Tag: Route 53
New Location for CloudFront and Route 53 – Melbourne, Australia
I am happy to announce the launch of an edge location in Melbourne, Australia for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. Global Coverage This new location will improve performance and availability for end users of applications being served by CloudFront and Route 53 and bring the total number of AWS edge locations to 52 worldwide. […]
Route 53 Health Check Update – Editing and Tagging
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Route 53 is able to meet the needs of complex enterprises, while remaining simple enough to be a good fit for personal websites. We added support for Route 53 health checks a little over a year ago, and have enhanced the model several […]
AWS Console Mobile App – Support for S3 and Route 53
The AWS Console mobile app for iOS and Android gives you quick, easy access to your AWS resources. You can see and manage your existing EC2 instances, S3 buckets, load balancers, database instances, Auto Scaling groups, OpsWorks stacks, and CloudWatch alarms. We added support for Amazon S3 in the last release but I was super […]
Domain Name Health Checks for Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Last year we introduced Route 53 health checks. You can configure these health checks to route traffic to a backup website in the event that your primary website fails to respond as expected. We have since enhanced the basic health […]
Route 53 and CloudTrail Checks for the AWS Trusted Advisor
The AWS Trusted Advisor monitors your AWS resources and provides you with advice for cost optimization, security, performance, and fault tolerance. Today we are adding five additional checks that will be of benefit to users of Amazon Route 53 (Domain Name Services) and AWS CloudTrail (recording and logging of AWS API calls). With today’s launch, […]
Route 53 Health Check Improvements – Faster Interval and Configurable Failover
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service. As such, it efficiently translates names such as thinkwithwp.com into IP addresses. Route 53 also includes a very handy failover feature. Once enabled, this feature performs health checks at regular intervals, and then switches to a backup site if the primary one appears […]
New Features for Route 53 – Improved Health Checks, HTTPS, Record Modification
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service. Route 53 is able to meet the needs of complex enterprises, while remaining simple enough to be a good fit for personal websites. Today we are adding some useful new features to Route 53: Improved Health Checks (including HTTPS support), and a new […]
Two New Edge Locations for CloudFront and Route 53 – Taipei and Rio de Janeiro
I am happy to announce the launch of edge locations in Taipei, Taiwan and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. This is our first edge location in Taiwan and our second edge location in Brazil (joining So Paulo). Global CoverageThese new locations will improve performance and availability for end users […]