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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…

Submitted by the_admin· Mar 30, 2026Networking and Content Delivery

Question

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?

Options

  • 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)
  • A
    13% (3)
  • B
    79% (19)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    4% (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.

Topics

#Route 53 weighted routing#DNS routing policies#canary deployment#traffic distribution

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