concept route policy in category aws

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A routing policy configures your networking software to base traffic-routing decisions on the contents or characteristics of the moving data, or on network conditions.

5.3.2. Create a routing policy

Although not every deployment will require this, sometimes you’ll want to route (that is, redirect) customer traffic among multiple servers. Route 53 provides routing policies as a tool for managing that situation.

Figure 5.10. Use the GUI to configure and apply a routing policy to your domain.