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DNS configuration management

Route 53 used as a store for application configuration.

Route 53configurationAWS

Screenshot used in the talk for DNS configuration management
Screenshot used in the original talk.

This approach uses Amazon Route 53 records as configuration data. Applications can read settings from DNS rather than from a separate configuration service.

DNS offers a distributed read path and simple replication, but also inherits DNS caching and update delays. Those properties must be part of the design.