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Amazon Route 53 is a Cloud Domain Name System (DNS) offered by Amazon AWS as a reliable way to route visitors to web applications and other site traffic to locations within a company's infrastructure, which can be configured to monitor the health and performance of traffic and endpoints…
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What are Managed DNS Services?
A DNS server manages resolution between public IP addresses and their host names. A managed DNS service relieves much of the hassle associated with hosting your own DNS server. When self-hosting a DNS server, downtime can disrupt service delivery and requires troubleshooting. Managed DNS services provide far more resilient networks of servers. By steering traffic dynamically they improve access to digital assets and reduce DNS load time.Managed DNS providers may also offer security features such as web application firewalls (WAFs), DDoS protection, web filtering and anti-malware. Many managed DNS providers specialize in failover, a common feature to ensure uptime by redirecting traffic away from endpoints that have gone down. Alternately, secondary DNS is a strategy to prevent outage whereby multiple authoritative servers are always available to answer queries.
Managed DNS Service Features & Capabilities
Managed DNS service providers specialize in availability, security, continuity, or cover all three. Common features offered by managed DNS providers are as follows:- Large global DNS network to support resiliency
- Intelligent traffic routing (geolocation, policy)
- Global load balancing, cloud migration
- DNS failover for service continuity
- Secondary DNS
- Distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection
- Web application firewall (WAF)
- Antimalware
- DNS analytics (log generation, traffic analysis, usage & downtime trends)
- Availability and disaster recovery
- DNS propogation and change management