Why it matters

DNS failover shapes basic HA. Understanding shapes design.

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The architecture

DNS TTL low (30s).

Health checks on primary.

Failover to secondary on health check fail.

DNS failover flowDNS TTL30-60sHealth checkson primaryFailover recordsto secondaryRoute 53 + Cloudflare + Azure DNS support health-check + failover records
DNS failover LLM.
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How it works end to end

Route 53 failover records.

Cloudflare load balancer.

Low TTL trades caching for RTO.