03. Route 53

CloudEng Course1 Lesson5 Route53 V1

Route 53

Route 53 is a cloud domain name system (DNS) service that has servers distributed around the globe used to translates human-readable names like www.google.com into the numeric IP addresses like 74.125.21.147.

Features

  • scales automatically to manage spikes in DNS queries
  • allows you to register a domain name (or manage an existing)
  • routes internet traffic to the resources for your domain
  • checks the health of your resources

Tips

  • Route 53 is found under the Networking & Content Delivery section on the AWS Management Console.
  • Route 53 allows you to route users based on the user’s geographic location.

Identify one service not provided by Route 53.

SOLUTION: website hosting

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