Exploring Route 53 Routing Policies - 1

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of Route 53 routing policies, explaining how they work and when to use each one.

Hafeez Baig
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22 steps
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3 minutes

Amazon Web Services

Refer to the following guide to learn how to use IAM in the cloud\ <https://scribehow.com/shared/Creating_an_IAM_User_and_User_Group_in_AWS_Management_Console__hWNiiXlcRJKFqYZZEJD-cg> Refer to this guide to learn how to create Route 53 and EC2 Instances\ <https://scribehow.com/shared/Creating_a_Hosted_Zone_with_Route_53_and_Exploring_Routing_Policies__FArAHxUbTHm8x2OZckeTrw>

Sign in to **AWS Management Console** as an **IAM User** **Pre-requisite** - Ensure you have selected the AWS region closest to your location\ For this guide, we will be using us-east-2 (Ohio) as a preferred choice

Type **Route 53** in the search bar and click on **Route 53** to view the Route 53 Dashboard

**What is Route 53?** Route 53 is an AWS DNS web service that manages domain names and directs internet traffic to resources based on rules and configurations set by the user.

On **Route 53** dashboard, on left bar click on the **Hosted zones**

**What are Hosted zones?** Hosted zones are containers within a DNS service that store records mapping domain names to IP addresses or other resources, enabling control over DNS resolution for a domain.

**Hosted zones** wizard will open, select the Hosted zone name **learnaws.com**

To create a new Record, click on the **View details** button on the top right

**learnaws.com** wizard will open, click on the **Create record** button on the right side

**Create record** wizard will open, give the **Record name** as "**simple**"

Open the text editor and copy the IP address of the Ohio instance in the Ohio region.

On **Create record** wizard, scroll to the **Value** section and paste the copied IP address of Ohio instance in the text input field

Scroll to the **TTL(seconds)** section and enter "**10**" in the text input field

**What is TTL(seconds)?** TTL (Time To Live) is a parameter in DNS records that specifies how long the record can be cached by DNS resolvers, measured in seconds.

Scroll the page and click on the **Create records** button

Record for **learnaws.com** was successfully created

Congratulations on successfully creating a new record in the hosted zone! Well done!

To add new IP addressed in the record, select the Record name **simple.learnaws.com**

Click on the **Edit record** button on the top right side

Open the text editor and copy the IP addresses of all instances

Paste all the IP addresses in the **Value** text input field and click on the **Save** button

Congratulations on successfully editing the record and adding the IP addresses! Well done!

Open the **Mumbai** region EC2 instance dashboard and select the **Mumbai** EC2 instance

Click on the **Connect** button on the top right side

**Connect to instance** wizard will open, click on the **Connect** button

Type the command [[ping simple.learnaws.com ]]and observe the IP address

**What is the** [[ping]] **command?** The [[ping ]]command is a network utility used to test the reachability of a host and measure the round-trip time for packets sent from the originating host to a destination computer and back.

Again type the command [[ping simple.learnaws.com ]]and observe the IP address here

You will notice each time it is giving different IP address from the IP address records we created

Congratulations on exploring and creating a new record in the hosted zone! You did great in completing this lab. Keep up the excellent work, and continue your journey exploring Route 53 by referring to this guide.<https://scribehow.com/shared/Exploring_Route_53_Routing_Policies__2__THpWXW0dSXqExq2iNmXKaA>