AWS Cloud Practitioner
Module 3
AWS Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is used to register new domains, transfer existing domains,
route traffic for your domain to your AWS and external resources, and monitor
the health of your resources.
AWS Route 53 functions:-
DNS management
Traffic management
Availability monitoring (health check)
Registration of domain
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AWS Route 53
Route 53 performs three main functions
(i) Register a domain
(ii) As a DNS, it routes internet traffic to the resources for your domain
(iii) Check the health of your resources
(i) Route 53 sends the automated requests over the internet to a
resource (can be a webserver) to verify that server is reachable,
functional and available.
(ii) Also you can choose to receive notification when a resource
becomes unavailable and choose to route internet traffic away from
unhealthy resources.
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AWS Route 53
When you register a domain with route 53,the service automatically
makes itself the DNS service for the domain by doing the following-
It creates a hosted zone that has the same name as your domain
It assigns a set of four name servers to the hosted zone, unique to the
account.
When someone uses a browser to access your website, the name
server inform the browser where to find your resources, such as a
web server or an amazon S3 bucket.
It gets the name server from the hosted zone and add them to the
domain
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AWS Route 53
AWS supports
Generic Top level domains (.com,.org…
Geographic Top level domain(.in,.uk…
Registering a domain with Route 53
You can register a domain with route 53. if the TLD is included on
the supported TLD list
If the TLD is not included, you can’t register the domain with route
53
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AWS Route 53
Using Route 53 as your service
You can use route 53 as the DNS service for any domain, even if the
TLD for the domain is not included on the supported TLD list
Note- Each amazon Route 53 account is limited to a maximum of
500 hosted zones and 10,000 resource record sets per hosted zone.
You can increase this limit by requesting to AWS.
A record set (now called a DNS record) in Amazon Route 53 is a
configuration that maps a domain name (like example.com) to an IP
address, AWS service, or another domain.
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AWS Route 53
How a Hosted Zone Works
1.You register a domain (e.g., example.com) or use an existing one.
2.You create a hosted zone for that domain in Route 53.
3.Route 53 provides a set of name servers, which you update at your
domain registrar.
4.You add DNS records (A, CNAME, etc.) to route traffic to websites,
applications, or AWS services.
