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Route 53 Health Checks

Route 53 Health ChecksΒΆ

  • If we have X health checks failed, we mark resource as unhealthy (default 3)
  • After X health checks passed, mark as healthy (default 3)
  • Default Health Check interval: 30 seconds (can set up to 10s - higher cost)
  • About 15 health checkers will check the endpoint health
  • One request every 2 seconds on average
  • Can have [[HTTP]], [[TCP]] and [[HTTPS]] health checks (no [[SSL verification]])

  • Possibility of integrating the health check with CloudWatch

  • Health checks can be linked to AWS Route 53 [[DNS queries]].