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Amazon Route 53

Cloud-based Domain Name System service

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Amazon Route 53 is a Domain Name System (DNS) service by Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2010. The name is a possible reference to U.S. Routes, and "53" is a reference to the TCP/UDP port 53, where DNS server requests are addressed.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307215723/https://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-03-07 |access-date=2013-03-07

Customers create "hosted zones" that act as a container for four name servers. The name servers are spread across four different TLDs. Customers are able to add, delete, and change any DNS records in their hosted zones. Amazon also offers domain registration services to AWS customers through Route 53.{{cite web |access-date=2014-07-31 |access-date=2011-11-08

One of the key features of Route 53 is programmatic access to the service that allows customers to modify DNS records via web service calls. Combined with other features in AWS, this allows a developer to programmatically bring up a machine and point to components that have been created via other service calls such as those to create new S3 buckets or EC2 instances.

Alias resource record type

Route 53 has a proprietary virtual record type called "Alias". Alias records act similarly to CNAME records but are resolved on the server side and appear to clients as an A record. They can be used to create transparent references to other AWS resources that only provide DNS names and not IP addresses, such as an Elastic Load Balancer or a CloudFront distribution.{{cite web |access-date=2011-11-08 | access-date = 2018-04-30

References

Jain, Neeru. (2020-01-08). "Introduction to Amazon Route 53".
"Amazon Route 53 Now Supports DNS Queries over IPv6 Networks".

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