SAA-C03 Practice Question 67: Route 53 Geolocation Licensing

Geolocation routing chooses the resource that serves a request based on where the DNS query originates, and AWS names limiting content to the locations where you hold distribution rights as one of its primary use cases. Locations can be specified by continent, country, or US state, and the most specific match wins. The default record is the important detail for the second requirement: without one, Route 53 returns "no answer" for queries from countries you have not covered and for IP addresses it cannot map, whereas the default sends all of them to the unavailability page.

Option A optimises for network performance, not entitlement. A viewer in an unlicensed country would simply be routed to whichever Region responds fastest, which is the licensing breach the company must avoid.

Option B distributes queries by proportion. Weights decide how often each record is returned, with no relationship to the querier's location, so viewers would be scattered across country endpoints at random.

Option D returns up to eight healthy records at random for a query. It improves availability and gives a crude form of load spreading, but it has no notion of geography at all.

Reference: Geolocation routing