Comment on Amazon Route 53 Introduces DNS failoverComments−lazyant13yisn't this offering cannibalizing AWS load balancers? if I have a set of web servers with a load balancer at front and health checks that takes unhealthy nodes out of rotation, isn't it cheaper now to just use this DNS fail-over?http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/elasticloadbalancing/ http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/−jread13yNot really - DNS failover is typically much slower to respond compared to load balancing because records are cached.−dsl13yELB is a local load balancer, distributing requests to local servers based on load and availability.R53 is a global traffic manager, distributing requests to datacenters to provide failover and latency optimization.
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isn't this offering cannibalizing AWS load balancers? if I have a set of web servers with a load balancer at front and health checks that takes unhealthy nodes out of rotation, isn't it cheaper now to just use this DNS fail-over?
http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/elasticloadbalancing/ http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/
Not really - DNS failover is typically much slower to respond compared to load balancing because records are cached.
ELB is a local load balancer, distributing requests to local servers based on load and availability.
R53 is a global traffic manager, distributing requests to datacenters to provide failover and latency optimization.