AWS Route 53 Service
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A AWS Route 53 Service is an aws dns service that is an aws cloud service providing dns management, domain registration, and traffic routing capabilities.
- AKA: Amazon Route 53, Route 53, AWS DNS Service.
- Context:
- It can typically translate Domain Name requests to aws ip addresses for aws internet applications through aws dns resolution processes.
- It can typically route AWS Traffic to various aws service resources including aws ec2 instances, aws elastic load balancers, and aws s3 buckets.
- It can typically provide AWS DNS Health Checks to monitor aws application health and route aws traffic only to healthy aws endpoints.
- It can typically enable Global Traffic Management through aws dns routing types such as aws latency-based routing, aws geo dns, and aws weighted round-robin.
- It can typically support AWS DNS Failover to create aws fault-tolerant architectures by redirecting aws traffic away from unhealthy aws endpoints.
- It can typically manage AWS Domain Name Registration allowing purchase and configuration of aws domain names with automatic aws dns settings setup.
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- It can often maintain AWS Name Servers distributed across multiple aws top-level domains for aws dns redundancy.
- It can often provide AWS Programmatic Access through aws api calls to modify aws dns records dynamically.
- It can often integrate with other aws services to enable automatic aws dns record creation for newly provisioned aws resources.
- It can often implement AWS Private DNS for aws vpc to manage aws internal domain names not exposed to the aws public internet.
- It can often support AWS DNSSEC to provide aws dns authentication and protect against aws dns spoofing attacks.
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- It can range from being a Simple AWS Route 53 Service to being a Complex AWS Route 53 Service, depending on its aws routing policy complexity and aws dns configuration scope.
- It can range from being a Public AWS Route 53 Service to being a Private AWS Route 53 Service, depending on its aws dns visibility and aws network scope.
- It can range from being a Basic AWS Route 53 Service to being an Advanced AWS Route 53 Service, depending on its aws traffic management capability and aws health check configuration.
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- It can integrate with AWS CloudFront for aws content delivery network distribution.
- It can connect to AWS Certificate Manager for aws ssl/tls certificate validation using aws dns verification.
- It can support AWS Global Accelerator for aws network performance optimization.
- It can work with AWS Elastic Load Balancer for aws load-balanced application access.
- It can integrate with AWS VPC for aws private dns resolution.
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- Examples:
- AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policy Types, such as:
- Simple AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policys, such as:
- Advanced AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policys, such as:
- Weighted AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policy for aws traffic distribution based on aws assigned weight.
- Latency AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policy for aws traffic routing based on aws network latency.
- Geolocation AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policy for aws traffic routing based on aws user geographic location.
- Geoproximity AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policy for aws traffic routing based on aws resource geographic location and aws bias value.
- Failover AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policy for aws disaster recovery and aws high availability.
- Multivalue Answer AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policy for aws traffic routing to multiple aws healthy resources.
- AWS Route 53 Service Record Types, such as:
- Standard AWS Route 53 Service Record Types, such as:
- A AWS Route 53 Service Record for mapping aws domain name to aws ipv4 address.
- AAAA AWS Route 53 Service Record for mapping aws domain name to aws ipv6 address.
- CNAME AWS Route 53 Service Record for mapping aws domain name to another aws domain name.
- MX AWS Route 53 Service Record for directing aws email traffic to aws mail servers.
- TXT AWS Route 53 Service Record for storing aws text information for aws domain verification.
- AWS-Specific AWS Route 53 Service Record Types, such as:
- Alias AWS Route 53 Service Record for mapping aws domain name to aws service resources.
- Standard AWS Route 53 Service Record Types, such as:
- AWS Route 53 Service Use Cases, such as:
- Web Application AWS Route 53 Services, such as:
- E-commerce AWS Route 53 Service for aws global online store access.
- Media AWS Route 53 Service for aws content delivery optimization.
- Enterprise AWS Route 53 Services, such as:
- Hybrid Cloud AWS Route 53 Service for aws dns resolution between aws on-premises resources and aws cloud resources.
- Multi-Region AWS Route 53 Service for aws global application deployment.
- Web Application AWS Route 53 Services, such as:
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- AWS Route 53 Service Routing Policy Types, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- AWS CloudFront, which provides aws content delivery and aws edge caching rather than aws dns management.
- AWS Global Accelerator, which optimizes aws network paths rather than providing aws dns resolution.
- AWS Virtual Private Cloud, which provides aws network isolation rather than aws dns service.
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing, which distributes aws traffic across aws resources rather than performing aws dns resolution.
- Third-Party DNS Provider, which operates outside the aws ecosystem and lacks native integration with aws services.
- See: Amazon S3, Amazon ELB, Amazon Web Services, Domain Name System, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Name Server, Top-Level Domain, AWS Elastic Load Balancer, AWS CloudFront.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#Networking Retrieved:2015-8-30.
- Amazon Route 53 provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Route_53 Retrieved:2015-8-30.
- Amazon Route 53 (Route 53) is part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Route 53 provides scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS). The name (Route 53) is a reference to TCP or UDP port 53, where DNS server requests are addressed. In addition to being able to route users to various AWS services, including EC2 instances, Route 53 also enables AWS customers to route users to non-AWS infrastructure. Route 53's servers are distributed throughout the world. Customers create "hosted zones" that act as a container for four name servers. The name servers are spread across four different TLDs. Customers are able to add, delete, and change any DNS records in their hosted zones. Amazon also offers domain registration services to AWS customers through Route 53. Amazon provides an SLA of the service always being available at all times (100% available).
One of the key features of Route 53 is programmatic access to the service that allows customers to modify DNS records via web service calls. Combined with other features in AWS, this allows a developer to programmatically bring up a machine and point to components that have been created via other service calls such as those to create new S3 buckets or EC2 instances.
- Amazon Route 53 (Route 53) is part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Route 53 provides scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS). The name (Route 53) is a reference to TCP or UDP port 53, where DNS server requests are addressed. In addition to being able to route users to various AWS services, including EC2 instances, Route 53 also enables AWS customers to route users to non-AWS infrastructure. Route 53's servers are distributed throughout the world. Customers create "hosted zones" that act as a container for four name servers. The name servers are spread across four different TLDs. Customers are able to add, delete, and change any DNS records in their hosted zones. Amazon also offers domain registration services to AWS customers through Route 53. Amazon provides an SLA of the service always being available at all times (100% available).
- https://aws.amazon.com/route53/
- QUOTE: Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.
Amazon Route 53 effectively connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS – such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, or Amazon S3 buckets – and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. You can use Amazon Route 53 to configure DNS health checks to route traffic to healthy endpoints or to independently monitor the health of your application and its endpoints. Amazon Route 53 makes it possible for you to manage traffic globally through a variety of routing types, including Latency Based Routing, Geo DNS, and Weighted Round Robin — all of which can be combined with DNS Failover in order to enable a variety of low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures. Amazon Route 53 also offers Domain Name Registration – you can purchase and manage domain names such as example.com and Amazon Route 53 will automatically configure DNS settings for your domains.
- QUOTE: Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.