A company currently hosts its website in us-east-1 and is deploying a copy to eu-central-1. European visitors should be routed to the site in eu-central-1, and all other visitors should go to the us-east-1 site. The DNS is managed in Route 53. Which routing policy should the administrator use on the record set to satisfy this requirement?
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Correct answer: Geolocation routing policy.
Why this is the answer
The Geolocation routing policy is the correct choice because it routes traffic based on the geographic location of the user. This allows you to direct European visitors to the eu-central-1 site and all other visitors to the us-east-1 site, directly fulfilling the requirement. Geoproximity routing policy routes traffic based on the geographic location of users and resources, and you can optionally shift traffic using biases, but it's more complex than needed for this specific requirement of routing based on continent. Latency routing policy routes traffic to the resource that provides the best latency, which might not always be the desired regional endpoint. Multivalue answer routing policy returns multiple healthy records, which isn't suitable for directing users to specific regions based on their origin.
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