# Route 53 Routing Policies (2/2)

In [part 1](https://bernieops.com/route-53-routing-policies-1), I explored the first four routing policies used by Route 53 when responding to DNS queries. These are the rest of the policies:

* Geolocation routing: based on the geographic location of the user, Route 53 will respond accordingly. For example, this is useful for compliance or content distribution restrictions.
    
* Geoproximity routing: not to be confused with geolocation, in this case a bias weight is established to AWS resources allocated in specific regions. In other words, this policy takes into consideration the location of the user **and** the location of the AWS resource being queried for.
    
* IP-based routing: CIDR blocks are allocated to different AWS resources, and depending on the user's IP address, different DNS responses will be provided.
    
* Multi-value routing: based on health checks, Route 53 is able to return multiple records for a single resource. For example, a website with three different IP addresses.
    
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