What is AWS Route 53 used for?
AWS Route53 is a reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications, it is used for below 3 things primarily:
- Route end users to your site reliably with globally dispersed Domain Name System (DNS) servers and automatic scaling.
- Set up your DNS routing in minutes with domain name registration and straightforward visual traffic flow tools.
- Customize your DNS routing policies to reduce latency, improve application availability, and maintain compliance.
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.