---
title: "Amazon Route 53 - Failover Routing Policy"
menutitle: "Failover"
weight: 3
chapter: true
pre: "<b></b>"
awsServices:
 - "Amazon Route 53"
tags: 
 - Pilot Light
type: Documentation
---


Failover routing allows you to route traffic to a resource when the resource is healthy or to a different resource when the first resource is unhealthy. Primary and secondary records can route traffic to any point from an Amazon S3 bucket that is configured as a site to a complex log tree. For more information, see [Active/Passive Failover](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover-types.html#dns-failover-types-active-passive).