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Failover to a passive web server

Failover to a passive web server - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Failover to a passive web server

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- [Instructor] So far we've created two Windows web servers, one worked as a primary and the other worked as a secondary. And our goal is to make it so that if the primary web server fails, then the secondary web server can automatically take over. So in order to do that, we have to do a little bit of housekeeping work to prepare our environment. The first thing that we need to do is to document the IP addresses that are used by both servers. Right now you can see that I'm in the Ohio region, so this is my secondary web server. And if you look at the description tab you can see that server's IP address right here, so we would want to make a note of this. Next let's switch over to the Oregon region. Here's our primary web server, and here's our primary web server's IP address, we would need to make note of this as well. So the next thing that we need to do is to switch over to route 53. So I'll click on services, I'll…

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