Chapter 8
The Domain Name System and Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront
THE AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
- Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures
- ✓ 1.3 Determine how to design a multitier architecture solution.
- ✓ 1.4 Determine how to design high availability and/or fault tolerant architectures.
- Domain 2: Define Performant Architectures
- ✓ 2.2 Apply caching to improve performance.
- ✓ 2.3 Design solutions for elasticity and scalability.
Introduction
Making your cloud resources accessible to the people and machines that will consume them is just as important as creating them in the first place. Facilitating network access to your content generally has three goals: availability, speed, and accurately getting the right content to the right users.
The Domain Name System (DNS) is primarily concerned with making your resources available...