- Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery Makes DNS Changes Easier
- Amazon says Eastern US reliable – last month’s outage differs
- The tool is generally available and free to use
Recognizing customer demand for stronger DNS resilience, AWS has promised to make fundamental changes to improve availability and ensure business continuity.
This comes against a backdrop where DNS issues have recently been largely responsible for some of the largest outages in AWS’s US East region.
Dubbed Expedited Recovery for Amazon Route 53, Amazon is promising a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service interruptions in this region, otherwise known as Northern Virginia.
Amazon wants to reduce downtime in the Eastern United States
“This improvement ensures that customers can continue to make DNS changes and provision infrastructure even during regional outages, providing greater predictability and resiliency for critical applications,” Amazon explained in a blog post.
The company prides itself on “exceptional availability throughout the country”. [its] global infrastructure,” but as highly regulated industries like banking, FinTech, and SaaS must make DNS changes in the event of disruptions, the company has launched an accelerated recovery.
AWS has also maintained that its US East region is no less reliable than its other regions, but a 2022 Gartner study warned that this is a structural weakness (according to The register).
AWS recently suffered a major outage at its Eastern US data center, disrupting apps, websites and other connected services globally, including its own Ring Doorbells, Snapchat and Duolingo. A DynamoDNS issue was the cause.
Senior Solutions Architect Micah Walter emphasized that customers don’t need to learn new APIs or modify existing automation scripts to use Route 53’s accelerated recovery. “Organizations can continue to make critical DNS changes, provision new infrastructure, and redirect traffic flows without waiting or fully restoring service,” Walter summarized.
Accelerated recovery of Amazon Route 53 public hosted zones is generally available, and best of all, it costs nothing. Private hosted zones are not supported.
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