How Does It Work?

AWS Route53 is a highly available DNS service and scalale service, it working model is as shown below.

Let’s take an example, client accessed some site URL www.mysite.in in the browser

  • End user requests the URL in the browser
  • DNS Resolver resolves the domain
  • ROute53 returns the IP Address for the record
  • From the IP address received browser will show the User interface

How To Configure Amazon Route 53 In AWS

In this article, we’ll learn the basics of DNS management, and how to configure our domain with AWS Route53, add DNS records, customize the attributes in DNS records, monitor the health status of the record, and make our site live.

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