AWS Cloud Map features that are unavailable in the AWS Cloud Map console

The following AWS Cloud Map features are unavailable on the AWS Cloud Map console. To use these features, you must use a programmatic method to access AWS Cloud Map.

Creating Route 53 alias records when you register service instances

When you register a service instance using the console, you can't create an alias record that routes traffic to an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancer. Note the following:

• When you create a service, you must specify WEIGHTED for RoutingPolicy. You can do this using the console. For more information, see Creating an AWS Cloud Map service.

  For information about creating a service using the AWS Cloud Map API, see CreateService in the AWS Cloud Map API Reference.

• When you register an instance, you must include the AWS_ALIAS_DNS_NAME attribute. For more information, see RegisterInstance in the AWS Cloud Map API Reference.

Specifying the initial health status for custom health checks

If you register an instance using a service that includes a custom health check, you can't specify the initial status for the custom health check. By default, the initial status of a custom health checks is Healthy. If you want the initial health status to be Unhealthy, register the instance programmatically and include the AWS_INIT_HEALTH_STATUS attribute. For more information, see RegisterInstance in the AWS Cloud Map API Reference.

Getting the status of an incomplete operation

If you close a browser window after you create a namespace but before creating the namespace has completed, the console doesn't provide a way to see the current status. You can get the status by using ListOperations. For more information, see ListOperations in the AWS Cloud Map API Reference.