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Dr. Logan Song
Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Understanding Amazon DNS – Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is a scalable and highly available DNS web service provided by AWS. Some details about AWS Route 53 are as follows:

  • It provides translation from human-readable names (such as example.com) into IP addresses that computers use to connect to network resources
  • It can also be used to route traffic to AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and load balancers
  • It offers features such as latency-based routing, geo DNS, health checks, and DNS failover, which help improve the performance, availability, and reliability of applications
  • It integrates with other AWS services, such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail, to provide additional monitoring and logging capabilities

Amazon Route 53 supports the following routing policies:

  • Simple routing: Uses one Route 53 server
  • Weighted round-robin routing: Assign weights to Route 53 server rotations
  • Latency routing: Route traffic based on latencies
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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