SOA-C02 · Question #691
A company is deploying a new version of its website. A SysOps administrator must deploy the new website in a limited rollout to 20% of the company's customers. The company uses Amazon Route 53 as…
The correct answer is B. Create a weighted routing policy. Configure a weight of 80 for the record that points to the original. Route 53’s weighted routing lets you split DNS traffic by percentage. By creating two records under a weighted routing policy - one with weight 80 for the current site and one with weight 20 for the new version - you ensure that roughly 20% of DNS queries resolve to the new…
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A company is deploying a new version of its website. A SysOps administrator must deploy the new website in a limited rollout to 20% of the company’s customers. The company uses Amazon Route 53 as the website’s DNS solution. Which configuration will meet these requirements?
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- ACreate a target group in Route 53. Set the routing algorithm to Weighted. Configure a weight of 80
- BCreate a weighted routing policy. Configure a weight of 80 for the record that points to the original
- CCreate a multivalue answer routing policy. Configure a weight of 80 for the record that points to the
- DCreate a failover routing policy. Configure 80% of the website traffic to go to the original resource.
How the community answered
(24 responses)- A13% (3)
- B79% (19)
- C4% (1)
- D4% (1)
Explanation
Route 53’s weighted routing lets you split DNS traffic by percentage. By creating two records under a weighted routing policy - one with weight 80 for the current site and one with weight 20 for the new version - you ensure that roughly 20% of DNS queries resolve to the new deployment, satisfying the canary rollout requirement.
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