Zinc provides a simple REST API for your basic DNS needs and implements policy records for Route 53 using either Weighted Routing or Latency-Based Routing
We have hundreds of sites hosted on our geographically distributed fleet of front-end servers. We want to ensure availability through redundancy (no customer site should be served by a single server), and a fast experience for all our customers' visitors through latency-based routing (when someone tries to access a site, the server with the lowest latency should serve it for them).
If you're like us and have several hundred policy routed records, the costs can be prohibitive.
Not yet, but one of the benefits of using Zinc is lower dependency on AWS. We figured in case we ever do decide to switch providers, adding support to Zinc should be easy and have the benefit of requiring only one system in our infrastructure to change.