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by js2 5771 days ago
No. Amazon gives you an A record and asks you to make a CNAME for it. So when they change an ELB's IP, they update their A record. So in our case, we just make sure our A records follow along. Either way, a DNS cache holding onto a stale record too long would cause a problem.

Which is why Amazon keeps the ELB active on both the old and new IPs for a period of time.