SimilarWeb: Route 53 Calculated Health Checks for an Active/Active Multi-Region Architecture


On this episode of This is My Architecture https://amzn.to/2zCHg2v, Oz from SimilarWeb walks us through how they use 2 AWS regions in an active/active scenario. They use a Route 53 decision tree, including calculated health checks, to both figure out if a region is healthy as well as trigger a planned maintenance fail-over of a region.

Host: Benjamin Feldon, Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture, AWS Financial Services
Customer: Oz Katz, VP R&D, Production Engineering, SimilarWeb


Duration: 7:12
Publisher: Amazon Web Services
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