AWS' new DNS 'business continuity' feature targets 60 minute recovery time after October cloud outage
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AWS' new DNS 'business continuity' feature targets 60 minute recovery time after October cloud outage
"Today, we're announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new Domain Name Service (DNS) business continuity feature that is designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region," said Micah Walter, senior solutions architect, in a post on the ."
"This enhancement ensures that customers can continue making DNS changes and provisioning infrastructure even during regional outages, providing greater predictability and resilience for mission-critical applications."
"Customers running applications that require business continuity have told us they need additional DNS resilience capabilities to meet their business continuity requirements and regulatory compliance obligations," he said."
"The feature maintains access to essential Route 53 API operations, ensuring that DNS management remains available when it's needed most," Walter added."
AWS rolled out Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery to manage public DNS records with a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) for the US East (N. Virginia) region. The move follows a major outage caused by DNS resolution issues that disrupted services such as Signal, Slack, Zoom, and Amazon itself. The feature maintains access to essential Route 53 API operations during regional outages, allowing customers to make critical DNS changes and provision infrastructure within the targeted RTO. The capability aims to meet business continuity needs and regulatory compliance obligations for mission-critical applications hosted in US-EAST-1.
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