Ensure Route 53 traffic policies use health checks
Traffic policies should incorporate health checks to ensure traffic is only routed to healthy endpoints, preventing user impact during failures.
Security Impact
Without health checks, traffic may be routed to failed endpoints, causing user-facing errors and degraded experience.
How to Remediate
Add health checks to all traffic policy endpoints. Configure appropriate health check intervals and failure thresholds.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-route53-10
- Service
- Amazon Route 53
- Category
- Traffic Management
- Severity
- MEDIUM
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