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With AWS Cloud Map, you can configure public DNS, private DNS, or HTTP namespaces that your microservice applications run in. When an instance becomes available, you can call the AWS Cloud Map API to register the instance with AWS Cloud Map. For public or private DNS namespaces, AWS Cloud Map automatically creates DNS records and an optional health check. Clients that submit public or private DNS queries, or HTTP requests, for the service receive an answer that contains up to eight healthy records.

If you’re using the service, you’re probably looking for ServiceDiscoveryClient and ServiceDiscovery.

Structs

A complex type that contains information about the Amazon Route 53 DNS records that you want AWS Cloud Map to create when you register an instance.

A complex type that contains information about changes to the Route 53 DNS records that AWS Cloud Map creates when you register an instance.

A complex type that contains the ID for the Route 53 hosted zone that AWS Cloud Map creates when you create a namespace.

A complex type that contains information about the Route 53 DNS records that you want AWS Cloud Map to create when you register an instance.

Public DNS and HTTP namespaces only. A complex type that contains settings for an optional health check. If you specify settings for a health check, AWS Cloud Map associates the health check with the records that you specify in DnsConfig.

If you specify a health check configuration, you can specify either HealthCheckCustomConfig or HealthCheckConfig but not both.

Health checks are basic Route 53 health checks that monitor an AWS endpoint. For information about pricing for health checks, see Amazon Route 53 Pricing.

Note the following about configuring health checks.

A and AAAA records

If DnsConfig includes configurations for both A and AAAA records, AWS Cloud Map creates a health check that uses the IPv4 address to check the health of the resource. If the endpoint tthat's specified by the IPv4 address is unhealthy, Route 53 considers both the A and AAAA records to be unhealthy.

CNAME records

You can't specify settings for HealthCheckConfig when the DNSConfig includes CNAME for the value of Type. If you do, the CreateService request will fail with an InvalidInput error.

Request interval

A Route 53 health checker in each health-checking AWS Region sends a health check request to an endpoint every 30 seconds. On average, your endpoint receives a health check request about every two seconds. However, health checkers don't coordinate with one another. Therefore, you might sometimes see several requests in one second that's followed by a few seconds with no health checks at all.

Health checking regions

Health checkers perform checks from all Route 53 health-checking Regions. For a list of the current Regions, see Regions.

Alias records

When you register an instance, if you include the AWSALIASDNSNAME attribute, AWS Cloud Map creates a Route 53 alias record. Note the following:

  • Route 53 automatically sets EvaluateTargetHealth to true for alias records. When EvaluateTargetHealth is true, the alias record inherits the health of the referenced AWS resource. such as an ELB load balancer. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/APIAliasTarget.html#Route53-Type-AliasTarget-EvaluateTargetHealth">EvaluateTargetHealth.

  • If you include HealthCheckConfig and then use the service to register an instance that creates an alias record, Route 53 doesn't create the health check.

Charges for health checks

Health checks are basic Route 53 health checks that monitor an AWS endpoint. For information about pricing for health checks, see Amazon Route 53 Pricing.

A complex type that contains information about an optional custom health check. A custom health check, which requires that you use a third-party health checker to evaluate the health of your resources, is useful in the following circumstances:

  • You can't use a health check that's defined by HealthCheckConfig because the resource isn't available over the internet. For example, you can use a custom health check when the instance is in an Amazon VPC. (To check the health of resources in a VPC, the health checker must also be in the VPC.)

  • You want to use a third-party health checker regardless of where your resources are located.

If you specify a health check configuration, you can specify either HealthCheckCustomConfig or HealthCheckConfig but not both.

To change the status of a custom health check, submit an UpdateInstanceCustomHealthStatus request. AWS Cloud Map doesn't monitor the status of the resource, it just keeps a record of the status specified in the most recent UpdateInstanceCustomHealthStatus request.

Here's how custom health checks work:

  1. You create a service.

  2. You register an instance.

  3. You configure a third-party health checker to monitor the resource that's associated with the new instance.

    AWS Cloud Map doesn't check the health of the resource directly.

  4. The third-party health-checker determines that the resource is unhealthy and notifies your application.

  5. Your application submits an UpdateInstanceCustomHealthStatus request.

  6. AWS Cloud Map waits for 30 seconds.

  7. If another UpdateInstanceCustomHealthStatus request doesn't arrive during that time to change the status back to healthy, AWS Cloud Map stops routing traffic to the resource.

In a response to a DiscoverInstances request, HttpInstanceSummary contains information about one instance that matches the values that you specified in the request.

A complex type that contains the name of an HTTP namespace.

A complex type that contains information about an instance that AWS Cloud Map creates when you submit a RegisterInstance request.

A complex type that contains information about the instances that you registered by using a specified service.

A complex type that contains information about a specified namespace.

A complex type that identifies the namespaces that you want to list. You can choose to list public or private namespaces.

A complex type that contains information that's specific to the namespace type.

A complex type that contains information about a namespace.

A complex type that contains information about a specified operation.

A complex type that lets you select the operations that you want to list.

A complex type that contains information about an operation that matches the criteria that you specified in a ListOperations request.

A complex type that contains information about the specified service.

A complex type that contains changes to an existing service.

A client for the ServiceDiscovery API.

A complex type that lets you specify the namespaces that you want to list services for.

A complex type that contains information about a specified service.

A custom key-value pair that's associated with a resource.

Enums

Errors returned by CreateHttpNamespace

Errors returned by CreatePrivateDnsNamespace

Errors returned by CreatePublicDnsNamespace

Errors returned by CreateService

Errors returned by DeleteNamespace

Errors returned by DeleteService

Errors returned by DeregisterInstance

Errors returned by DiscoverInstances

Errors returned by GetInstance

Errors returned by GetInstancesHealthStatus

Errors returned by GetNamespace

Errors returned by GetOperation

Errors returned by GetService

Errors returned by ListInstances

Errors returned by ListNamespaces

Errors returned by ListOperations

Errors returned by ListServices

Errors returned by ListTagsForResource

Errors returned by RegisterInstance

Errors returned by TagResource

Errors returned by UntagResource

Errors returned by UpdateInstanceCustomHealthStatus

Errors returned by UpdateService

Traits

Trait representing the capabilities of the ServiceDiscovery API. ServiceDiscovery clients implement this trait.