amazon route 53 announces metric based health checks, dns failover for private hosted zones, and configurable health check locations /

We are excited to announce the launch of three unique health checking features for Amazon Route 53:

Metric Based Health Checks let you perform DNS failover based on any metric that is available within Amazon CloudWatch,including AWS-provided metrics and custom metrics from your own application. When you create a metric based health check within Amazon Route 53, the health check becomes unhealthy whenever its associated Amazon CloudWatch metric enters an alarm state.

Source: amazon.com