Amazon Web Service: Route DNS Failover is now available for ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) endpoints.

This is a big step for AWS in the dynamic to improve its services and technologies.

For those who unfamiliar, with DNS Failover, Route 53 can detect
an outage of the website and redirect end users to alternate or backup locations specified.

‘’Until today, it was difficult to use DNS Failover if your application was running behind ELB to balance your incoming traffic across EC2 instances, because there was no way configure Route 53 health checks against an ELB endpoint, to create a health check, you need to specify an IP address to check, and ELBs don’t have fixed IP addresses. ‘’ said Sean Meckley, Product Manager.

Henceforth all these problems are solved with the release of DNS Failover for Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) endpoints.