Design how traffic reaches three regions and how it leaves one that is failing. Last time the failover took nineteen minutes.

DNS time-to-live is a suggestion and nineteen minutes is what believing it costs. The mechanism you choose decides your failover time, and the health check you choose decides whether it fires at all.

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DNS time-to-live is a suggestion and nineteen minutes is what believing it costs. The mechanism you choose decides your failover time, and the health check you choose decides whether it fires at all.

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