Summary

• Amazon Route 53 is a reliable and scalable DNS web service. DNS is an internet protocol, and translates human-readable names, such as www.example.com, to numeric IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6) that computers use to connect with each other.
• A TLD refers to the highest level in the hierarchical domain name system of the internet (that is, .com, .net, .org, and so on).
• Hosted zones are logical containers for specific domain records (that is, www.example.com), and sub-domains (subdomain.example.com).
• Public hosted zones contain records set to route internet traffic from the end user to your web application, and emails.
• Private hosted zones contain record sets to route Amazon VPC traffic within an AWS account.
• In Route 53, the A record type stores IPv4 addresses with a dotted decimal notation. This record helps traffic to a specific web application server on EC2 or on-premises...