Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal autoshift available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
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The article summarizes the availability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC) zonal autoshift feature in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. This feature automatically shifts an application's traffic away from an Availability Zone (AZ) when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that AZ, improving application availability.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Zonal autoshift is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- It can be enabled for Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer with cross-zone configuration disabled
- It automatically shifts traffic away from an affected AZ and shifts it back after the failure is resolved
- It includes practice runs to test if the application has sufficient capacity in each AZ
- There is no additional charge for using zonal autoshift
- The article provides links to get started with Route 53 ARC and zonal autoshift documentation
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