Use zonal shift and zonal autoshift to recover applications in Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller - Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller
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Use zonal shift and zonal autoshift to recover applications in Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller

This section explains how to use capabilities in Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller to reliably recover your Amazon application from an issue in an Availability Zone (AZ). These capabilities, zonal shift and zonal autoshift, temporarily move traffic away from an AZ for an Elastic Load Balancing resource, to reduce time to recovery for your applications.

The primary difference between zonal shift and zonal autoshift is that one is a manual traffic shift that you control, and the other shifts traffic away from an impairment automatically on your behalf.

  • With zonal shift, you manually move traffic for a managed Elastic Load Balancing resource in an Amazon Web Services Region away from an Availability Zone.

  • With zonal autoshift, Elastic Load Balancing traffic is automatically shifted away from an impaired AZ to healthy AZs in a Region during events, on your behalf.

The following topics describe the zonal shift and zonal autoshift capabilities, and how to use them.

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