A company has a primary web application hosted in the us-east-1 region and a disaster recovery site in the us-west-2 region. The company wants to route all traffic to us-east-1 normally, but automatically route traffic to us-west-2 if the primary site becomes unresponsive.<br/><br/>Which Amazon Route 53 routing policy should be used?

Answer options:

Latency routing policy

Weighted routing policy

Failover routing policy

Geolocation routing policy

How to approach this question

Match the active-passive requirement to the correct Route 53 policy.

Full Answer

C.Failover routing policy✓ Correct

Failover routing policy

Failover routing lets you route traffic to a resource when the resource is healthy or to a different resource when the first resource is unhealthy. This is the standard active-passive disaster recovery pattern.

Common mistakes

Choosing weighted routing, which is active-active.

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