Creating health checks and configuring DNS failover

This page was generated from content adapted from the AWS Developer Guide

How Route 53 determines whether a health check is healthy

• Note Because Route 53 health checks monitor CloudWatch data streams instead of the state of CloudWatch alarms, you can't force the status of a health check to change by using the CloudWatch SetAlarmState API operation.

Creating, updating, and deleting health checks

• Important If you're updating or deleting health checks that are associated with records, review the tasks in Updating or deleting health checks when DNS failover is configured before you proceed.