title: Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Route 53 in AWS
body: <p>I'm new to AWS and just started learning it.</p>
  <p><code>Load Balancing</code> is something that is common which we will use for load distribution when we have multiple servers.</p>
  <p>Here, when I learnt about <code>Route 53</code> in AWS, it sounds similar to load balancing. Although we can do more with Route53 (like <code>A</code> , <code>CNAME</code> , <code>ALIAS</code> etc.,). My doubt is, can we use <code>weighted</code> or <code>latency</code> or <code>failover</code> based routing policy instead of load balancer? Is it possible to reduce the cost incurred for <code>ELB</code> if we are using Route53? How effective will it be and what are the drawbacks?</p>