Announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery for managing public DNS records

This article announces Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery, a new feature enabling DNS management during regional disruptions with a targeted 60-minute Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

• Replicates public hosted zones from N. Virginia to Oregon Region for failover capability
• Allows DNS record changes during us-east-1 regional service disruptions
• Opt-in feature with no additional charges for public hosted zones
• Uses familiar Route 53 API endpoints; enables via Console, SDK, or API
• Complements existing Route 53 data plane and health check capabilities
• Stranded changes during disruption must be manually resubmitted after failover
• Not supported for private hosted zones or with DNSSEC enabled
• Useful for financial services, SaaS providers, and regulated industries

Accelerated Recovery provides predictable DNS resilience for business continuity during regional events, now available across AWS commercial regions.