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		mwcampbell on June 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The AWS Spend of Our SaaS Side-Business Why is that the only way to get a 10s failover? The TTL on the DNS records for Amazon RDS, at least for Aurora, is just 5s.

paulddraper on June 10, 2017 [–]

I think because route53 is slow to update? I don't know.

I do know that AWS itself documents 60-120s for RDS. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concep...

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