Amazon Route 53 announces accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records

Amazon Route 53 is excited to release the accelerated recovery option for managing DNS records in public hosted zones. Accelerated recovery targets a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) for regaining the ability to make DNS changes to your DNS records in Route 53 public hosted zones, if AWS services in US East (N. Virginia) become temporarily unavailable.

The Route 53 public DNS service API is used by customers today for making changes to DNS records in order to facilitate software deployments, run infrastructure operations, and onboard new users. Customers in banking, financial technology (FinTech), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) in particular need a predictable and short RTO for meeting business continuity and disaster recovery objectives. In the past, if AWS services in US East (N. Virginia) became unavailable, customers would not be able to modify or recreate DNS records to point users and internal services to updated endpoints. Now, when you enable the accelerated recovery option on your Route 53 public hosted zone, you can make changes to Route 53 public DNS records (Resource Record Sets) in that hosted zone soon after such an interruption, most often in less than one hour.

Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records is available globally, except in AWS GovCloud and Amazon Web Services in China. There is no additional charge for using this feature. To learn more about the accelerated recovery option, visit our documentation.