Key Features of Route53
Before diving into the steps let’s discuss the key features of route53 and its advantages over other DNS hosting possibilities.
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Global Network Infrastructure |
Route 53 operates on a global anycast network, ensuring low latency and high-performance DNS resolution worldwide. |
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Advanced Routing Policies |
Provides advanced routing policies such as weighted routing, latency-based routing, and geolocation-based routing, allowing sophisticated traffic management strategies. |
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Health Checks |
Supports health checks to monitor resource health. In case of an unhealthy resource, we can configure Route 53 can automatically redirect traffic to healthy alternatives, ensuring high availability. |
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Easy to use Manage |
AWS Route53 provides a user-friendly management console for configuring DNS settings, we can also use optional methods like AWS CLI or SDKs. |
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Pricing |
It provides transparent and cost-effective pricing based on actual usage, with users paying for hosted zones and DNS queries, making it a cost-efficient choice. |
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Integration with AWS Services |
Seamlessly integrates with various AWS services for easy management of DNS records tied to resources like S3 buckets, and Elastic Load Balancers. Features like S3-Website won’t be supported by other DNS hosting providers, as this is an in-house feature. |
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.