Practical AWS Networking

Configuring health checks on Route 53

Let's understand how health checks can be configured on Route 53:

1. Click on Health checks.
2. Click on Create health check:

3. Give a Name to the health check. Select an endpoint in the what to monitor section.
4. Select the0;Specify endpoint by IP address.

5. Provide the IP address of the EC2 instance that you want to monitor. Provide a port number as per your requirements:

6. To get notifications when a health check fails, select Create alarm.
7. Select New SNS topic in Send notification to.
8. Provide a Topic name ...