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Asked: 2026-06-15T10:26:31+00:00

How do you put up a maintenance page in AWS when you want to

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How do you put up a maintenance page in AWS when you want to deploy new versions of your application behind an ELB? We want to have the ELB route traffic to the maintenance instance while the new auto-scaled instances are coming up, and only “flip over” to the new instances once they’re fully up. We use auto-scaling to bring existing instances down and new instances, which have the new code, up.

The scenario we’re trying to avoid is having the ELB serve both traffic to new EC2 instances while also serving up the maintenance page. Since we dont have sticky sessions enabled, we want to prevent the user from being flipped back and forth between the maintenance-mode page and the application deployed in an EC2 instance. We also can’t just scale up (say from 2 to 4 instances and then back to 2) to introduce the new instances because the code changes might involve database changes which would be breaking changes for the old code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The simplest way on AWS is to use Route 53, their DNS service.

    You can use the feature of Weighted Round Robin.

    “You can use WRR to bring servers into production, perform A/B testing,
    or balance your traffic across regions or data centers of varying
    sizes.”

    More information in AWS documentations on this feature

    EDIT: Route 53 recently added a new feature that allows DNS Failover to S3. Check their documentation for more details: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover.html

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