- Amazon’s Route 53 Accelerated Recovery Makes It Easier to Make DNS Changes
- Amazon claims the Eastern US is reliable; last month’s interruption disagrees
- The tool is generally available and free to use.
Recognizing customer demand for greater DNS resilience, AWS has promised to make some fundamental changes to improve uptime and ensure business continuity.
This comes against a backdrop where DNS issues have recently been largely responsible for some of the largest outages in the AWS US East Region.
Called accelerated recovery for Amazon Route 53, Amazon is promising a recovery time objective (RTO) of 60 minutes during service outages in this region, also known as Northern Virginia.
Amazon wants to reduce downtime in the eastern US
“This enhancement ensures that customers can continue to make DNS changes and provision infrastructure even during regional outages, providing greater predictability and resiliency for mission-critical applications,” Amazon explained in a blog post.
The company has “exceptional availability in all [its] global infrastructure,” but because highly regulated industries like banking, FinTech, and SaaS need to make DNS changes during outages, the company has launched accelerated recovery.
AWS also maintained that its US East region is no less reliable than its other regions, but 2022 Gartner research warned that this is a structural weakness (according to The Registry).
AWS recently suffered a major outage in its eastern US data center, disrupting apps, websites, and other connected services globally, including its own Ring, Snapchat, and Duolingo doorbells. A DynamoDNS problem was to blame.
Senior Solutions Architect Micah Walter noted that customers do not need to learn new APIs or modify existing automation scripts to use Route 53 Accelerated Recovery. “Organizations can continue to make critical DNS changes, provision new infrastructure, and reroute traffic flows without waiting or fully restoring service,” Walter summarized.
Expedited recovery for Amazon Route 53 public hosted zones is generally available and, best of all, costs nothing. Private hosted areas are not allowed.
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