Creating AWS Route 53 Health Checks for API Gateway Endpoints

In this excerpt from one of our live Twitch coding sessions, David covers how to create health checks to create dynamic routing in AWS Route 53.
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[@KhurramNizami]

great explanation, thank you

[@kotik1221]

shouldnt this be supported by Route53 Failover routing? Why creating health checks yourself?