Starting a zonal shift
The steps in this section explain how to start a customer-initiated zonal shift on the Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller console. To work with zonal shift programmatically, see the Zonal Shift API Reference Guide.
To start a zonal shift
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Open the Route 53 ARC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53recovery/home#/dashboard
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Under Multi-AZ, choose Zonal shift.
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On the Zonal shift page, choose Start zonal shift.
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Select the Availability Zone that you want to move traffic away from.
Select a load balancer from the Resources table to move traffic away for.
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For Set zonal shift expiration, choose or enter an expiration for the zonal shift. A zonal shift can set to be active initially for 1 minute or up to three days (72 hours).
All zonal shifts are temporary. You must set an expiration, but you can update active shifts later to set a new expiration period of up to three days.
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Enter a comment. You can update the zonal shift later to edit the comment, if you like.
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Select the check box to acknowledge that starting a zonal shift will reduce available capacity for your application by shifting traffic away from the Availability Zone.
Choose Start.
