How long does Route 53 A record take to update?

Question

I am using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, with Route 53 A record pointing to the beanstalk configured load balancer.

There were some problems with my old beanstalk environment, so I am creating a new one and now need to point my Route 53 A record to the new beanstalk load balancer. Is there a way I can check how long does it take for this change to take place? Or if there is a way to know if it has already taken place.

Answer 1

If you used the A record and alias feature of Route53 it should be within a minute (all our TTL setting for alias A records in AWS are 59 seconds by default).

If you would like to make sure it points to the new one, I recommend dig both load balancers directly to get the current ips and then dig to your domain to see which ip the alias record currently points to.