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Amazon Route 53

Cloud Provider: AWS

What is Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is a scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service designed to give developers and businesses a reliable 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.

Key Amazon Route 53 Features

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and reliable DNS service featuring flexible routing policies, health checks, scalable domain registration, and seamless integration with other AWS services.

Amazon Route 53 Use Cases

Amazon Route 53 serves multiple purposes including domain registration and management, global traffic distribution, health checks with failover capabilities, sophisticated DNS management, and SSL certificate management, all aimed at ensuring high availability, performance, and security of web applications.

Services Amazon Route 53 integrates with

Amazon Route 53 pricing models

Amazon Route 53 pricing includes per-million queries pricing, a fixed monthly fee for each hosted zone, and charges for Traffic Flow policies and the queries they process.