Route 53 Swapping primary recordset with secondary recordset

Question

With Two AWS R53 failover recordsets say of A type. I have tried finding the best way to swap primary and secondary recordset in aws route 53 using CLI. Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Try using weighted recordsets.

set the weight of one to 0 and the other to 100, this will swap DNS records entirely. If the requirement is transition deployment slowly, then set the weights to give proportional responses (so, for example 400 and 400 will direct traffic equally).

Remember that DNS records are cached, so any changes might not take effect immediately. If you expect to do this a lot, set the TTL (time to live) to 60 seconds.