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arczonalshift_start_zonal_shift R Documentation

You start a zonal shift to temporarily move load balancer traffic away from an Availability Zone in an Amazon Web Services Region, to help your application recover immediately, for example, from a developer's bad code deployment or from an Amazon Web Services infrastructure failure in a single Availability Zone

Description

You start a zonal shift to temporarily move load balancer traffic away from an Availability Zone in an Amazon Web Services Region, to help your application recover immediately, for example, from a developer's bad code deployment or from an Amazon Web Services infrastructure failure in a single Availability Zone. You can start a zonal shift in Route 53 ARC only for managed resources in your Amazon Web Services account in an Amazon Web Services Region. Resources are automatically registered with Route 53 ARC by Amazon Web Services services.

At this time, you can only start a zonal shift for Network Load Balancers and Application Load Balancers with cross-zone load balancing turned off.

When you start a zonal shift, traffic for the resource is no longer routed to the Availability Zone. The zonal shift is created immediately in Route 53 ARC. However, it can take a short time, typically up to a few minutes, for existing, in-progress connections in the Availability Zone to complete.

For more information, see Zonal shift in the Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller Developer Guide.

Usage

arczonalshift_start_zonal_shift(awayFrom, comment, expiresIn,
  resourceIdentifier)

Arguments

awayFrom

[required] The Availability Zone (for example, use1-az1) that traffic is moved away from for a resource when you start a zonal shift. Until the zonal shift expires or you cancel it, traffic for the resource is instead moved to other Availability Zones in the Amazon Web Services Region.

comment

[required] A comment that you enter about the zonal shift. Only the latest comment is retained; no comment history is maintained. A new comment overwrites any existing comment string.

expiresIn

[required] The length of time that you want a zonal shift to be active, which Route 53 ARC converts to an expiry time (expiration time). Zonal shifts are temporary. You can set a zonal shift to be active initially for up to three days (72 hours).

If you want to still keep traffic away from an Availability Zone, you can update the zonal shift and set a new expiration. You can also cancel a zonal shift, before it expires, for example, if you're ready to restore traffic to the Availability Zone.

To set a length of time for a zonal shift to be active, specify a whole number, and then one of the following, with no space:

  • A lowercase letter m: To specify that the value is in minutes.

  • A lowercase letter h: To specify that the value is in hours.

For example: ⁠20h⁠ means the zonal shift expires in 20 hours. ⁠120m⁠ means the zonal shift expires in 120 minutes (2 hours).

resourceIdentifier

[required] The identifier for the resource that Amazon Web Services shifts traffic for. The identifier is the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the resource.

At this time, supported resources are Network Load Balancers and Application Load Balancers with cross-zone load balancing turned off.

Value

A list with the following syntax: 

list(
  awayFrom = "string",
  comment = "string",
  expiryTime = as.POSIXct(
    "2015-01-01"
  ),
  resourceIdentifier = "string",
  startTime = as.POSIXct(
    "2015-01-01"
  ),
  status = "ACTIVE"|"EXPIRED"|"CANCELED",
  zonalShiftId = "string"
)

Request syntax

svc$start_zonal_shift(
  awayFrom = "string",
  comment = "string",
  expiresIn = "string",
  resourceIdentifier = "string"
)