Understanding Amazon DNS – Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a scalable and highly available DNS web service provided by AWS. Some details about AWS Route 53 are as follows:
- It provides translation from human-readable names (such as
example.com) into IP addresses that computers use to connect to network resources - It can also be used to route traffic to AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and load balancers
- It offers features such as latency-based routing, geo DNS, health checks, and DNS failover, which help improve the performance, availability, and reliability of applications
- It integrates with other AWS services, such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail, to provide additional monitoring and logging capabilities
Amazon Route 53 supports the following routing policies:
- Simple routing: Uses one Route 53 server
- Weighted round-robin routing: Assign weights to Route 53 server rotations
- Latency routing: Route traffic based on latencies ...
