Amazon Route 53 now includes: Improved Health Checks (including HTTPS support), and a new record modification API.

If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co recalls that, Amazon Route 53 is scalable DNS service, intended for enterprises, and for personal websites. Henceforth this Amazon Web Service includes: improved Health Checks (including HTTPS support), and a new record modification API. Meaning that, the logical (domain name) to physical (IP address) mapping that you get when you use a DNS service such as Route 53 can simplify the process of building applications and services that are highly available, you can now configure your Route 53 health checks to use the presence of a designated string in a server response to indicate that the server is performing as desired. The string (up to 255 characters long) must appear in the first

5,120 bytes of the response body.

Connectikpeople.co recalls that, you can use this feature in a couple of different ways. You can check the website itself to make sure that the HTML it serves up contains an expected string. Or, you can create a status checking routine and use it to check the health of the server from an internal or operational perspective.

Now, many of you use the Route 53 API to make changes to their DNS record sets. Henceforth, Amazon Web Service has added the UPSERT (update / insert) operation to the ChangeResourceRecordSets function simplify the process of creating new record sets and modifying existing ones.