Amazon Route 53 is a cloud Domain Name System web service that is highly available and scalable. It offers developers and enterprises a reliable and cost-effective solution. This routing is also done to Internet applications by converting names such as www.example.com to numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1, which computers use to communicate with each other. Additionally, Amazon Route 53 is fully compatible with IPv6.
Amazon Route 53 also links user requests to AWS infrastructure quickly. Examples include Amazon EC2 instances and Elastic Load Balance load balancers. They are useful for routing customers to infrastructure not hosted by AWS. Amazon Route 53 can also set up DNS health checks to route traffic towards healthy endpoints, or monitor the health and performance of each application and its endpoints.
Amazon Route 53 allows you to manage international traffic with a variety of routing options. There are many routing options, including Geo DNS, Geoproximity and Weighted Round Robin. All of these options can be combined to enable a variety low-latency, faulttolerant architectures.
You can also use Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow’s visual editor. You can control how your end-users access your application’s endpoints from any AWS region, or anywhere else on the planet. Amazon Route 53 also offers Domain Name Registration, which can automatically create DNS settings for your domains.
Amazon Route 53 Benefits
It’s human nature to first understand the benefits of any information before moving on to the features. Let’s now discuss the benefits of Amazon Route 53. These are the following:
1. Highly reliable and available
Amazon Route 53 is stacked using AWS’s highly reliable and stable infrastructure. Segmented DNS servers ensure constant efficacy in routing end-users to the application. Technology such as Amazon Route 53 Traffic flow increases reliability and is easy to set up. Amazon Route 53 integrates with critical applications to provide the same level of reliability. The Amazon Route 53 Service Level Agreement supports Amazon Route 53.
2. Flexible
Route 53 on Amazon Traffic Flow directs traffic based on a variety of factors. These factors include endpoint health, geographic location and latency. You can now modify traffic regulations and see which ones currently in effect. You can also create and modify traffic policies using the Route 53 console, AWS SDKs or the Route 53 API. Traffic Flow’s versioning function tracks changes to traffic regulations over time. You can use the API or console to roll back to a previous version.
3. This product is compatible with other Amazon Web Services
Amazon Route 53 can seamlessly integrate with other AWS capabilities. The user can also use Amazon Route 53 to point domains to Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon CloudFront distributions, and any other AWS resource.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), which is available with Amazon Route 53, allows you to have a fine-grained control over who can update the DNS data. You can also use Amazon Route 53 to control your zone apex (example.com or www.example.com), to your Elastic Load Balance instance, Amazon CloudFront distribution and API Gateway. A feature called Alias records allows you to direct your zone to Amazon S3 website bucket.
4. Simple
Amazon Route 53 can answer your DNS queries in a matter of minutes using the self-service sign up. You can also configure DNS settings easily with the AWS Management Console and our simple-to-use API. You can also programmatically integrate the Amazon Route 53 API in your web application.
5. Fast
Amazon Route 53 uses a global network of DNS servers to route users to the best position, regardless of network conditions. The service not only provides low query latency to your end-users, but also offers low update latency to your DNS record management needs. You can also move your application to multiple locations around the globe to enhance the customer experience.
6. Cost-effective
Amazon Route 53 makes it easy to enjoy the scale of AWS. You only pay for the resources that you use. These include the number of queries the service resolves for each domain, hosted zones to manage domains through the service, as well as optional features like traffic policies and health checks. All of this at a low price and without any upfront fees or minimum usage commitments.
7. Secure
You can assign distinct credentials once you have integrated Amazon Route 53 with AWS Identity and Access Management. You can also manage permissions for each user in your AWS account to determine who has access which part of the Amazon Route 53 service.
8. Scalable
Route 53 can instantly scale to handle very large queries volumes without any interference from your side.
9. The hybrid cloud simplified
Amazon Route 53 Resolver provides algorithmic DNA for your Amazon VPC or on-premises networks via AWS Direct Connect, AWS Managed VPN.
AWS Routing policies
Let’s now understand AWS Route 53. Below is a list of routing policies.
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