AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles

The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services’ US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.

As explained in a Wednesday post, AWS customers told the cloud colossus “they need additional DNS resilience capabilities to meet their business continuity requirements and regulatory compliance obligations.”

“Organizations in regulated industries like banking, FinTech, and SaaS want the confidence that they will be able to make DNS changes even during unexpected regional disruptions, allowing them to quickly provision standby cloud resources or redirect traffic when needed,” the post adds.

AWS’s response to those needs is a feature “designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East.”

Elsewhere in the post, AWS says the feature targets “DNS changes that customers ...