Section 9: Route 53

Question 1

What are the targets for Alias Records in Route 53?

Answer 1

• Elastic Load Balancer
• Amazon Cloudfront
• Amazon API Gateway
• Elastic Beanstalk
• S3 Static Websites
• VPC Interface Endpoints
• Global Accelerator
• Route 53 Record (same Hosted Zone)

You cannot set an Alias Record for an EC2 DNS name

Question 2

What type of DNS record do you need to create to map the apex of a domain to an ELB?

Answer 2

An Alias Record of type A. A CNAME record cannot be used because it is not permitted for the apex of a domain.

Question 3

What is the difference between Simple Routing Policy with multiple values and the Multi Value Policy?

Answer 3

Multi Value Routing Policy let’s you define health checks and returns only the IP addresses of the healthy values.