- Accelerated recovery for Amazon’s Route 53 makes it easier to make DNS changes
- Amazon claims the eastern US is reliable – last month’s outage begs to differ
- The tool is generally available and free to use
Recognizing customer demand for stronger DNS resiliency, AWS has promised to make some fundamental changes to improve uptime and ensure business continuity.
This comes as DNS issues were recently largely responsible for some of the biggest outages in AWS’ US East region.
Called Accelerated recovery for Amazon Route 53, Amazon is promising a 60-minute recovery time target (RTO) during service outages in this region, also known as North Virginia.
Amazon wants to reduce downtime in the US East
“This enhancement ensures customers can continue to make DNS changes and infrastructure provisioning even during regional outages, providing greater predictability and resiliency for mission-critical applications,” Amazon explained in a blog post.
The company boasts “exceptional availability across [its] global infrastructure,” but because highly regulated industries like banking, FinTech and SaaS must make DNS changes during disruptions, the company has launched Accelerated recovery.
AWS also maintained that its US East region is no less reliable than its other regions, but Gartner research in 2022 warned that this is a structural weak point (per The register).
AWS recently suffered a major outage at its US East data center, disrupting applications, websites and other connected services globally, including its own Ring doorbells, Snapchat and Duolingo. A DynamoDNS issue was to blame.
Senior Solutions Architect Micah Walter emphasized that customers do not 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 full service recovery,” Walter summarized.
Accelerated recovery for 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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