Simple and powerful DNS configuration.
Amazon Route 53 has a simple UI with everything you need right in front of you. When you add a new record, the response time is super …
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What is Amazon Route 53?
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…
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$0.40
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Per Zone Per Month
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$0.60
Cloud
Per Million Queries
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Amazon Route 53 Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 in the network.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Amazon Route 53 are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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January 13, 2023
Amazon Route 53
Highly Available, scriptable DNS zone management. We had issues with DOS on smaller providers (Ultra, Dyn) and Amazon Route 53 was able to handle DDOS against our zones better.
- API access to manage Amazon Route 53
- Redundancy and High Availablility
- Nice extensions (geographic resolution, aliasing)
- As long as all Amazon Route 53 can be controlled when us-east-1 is down, I'm happy.
- Replication lags but don't they all?
- Diagnostics on DNS TXT validation fields like "issuewild" is suddnly necessary but was never really documented as a "change" to their requirements.
- Price
- Redundancy/High Availability
- Compliance to DNS standards
- Resistance to DDOS
- Greatly simplified deployment of 100's of domains
- At the price they charge, it pays off fast over all other alternatives
Amazon is priced higher than Google's DNS, but since our gear (Cloudfront, ALB, etc) is in AWS, Amazon Route 53 is easier to use sop we don't have to manage two vendors.
January 11, 2023
Working as expected
I am using amazon rote 53 as a delegated Nameserver from my primary DNS server. This is acting as a backup DNS incase if the primary goes down
- high availability
- easy to generate the hit count report
- uptime
- it took time initially to setup the synchronization from my primary DNS to route 53
- cost is based on the usage/hit count
- High availability
- backup
- cost effective
- when our primary DNS provider went down, aws served as a backup and thus minimized the business impact
- its working great for more than 7-8 years which is great
This was the POC that was done during the initial stage but we never put this in production
February 24, 2022
Route 53 and AWS go hand in hand
Route 53 is used as our primary Domain Name Service (DNS) which exposes our products to our users online. Unlike other DNS providers, Route 53 is specialized to work within Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make exposing endpoints across services as seamless as possible. Route 53 also helps quickly switch routing for our red/green deployments making sure our customers have a great experience when using our services during updates.
- Domain Name Services
- High Availability
- Working with AWS Services
- Each DNS provider has its own look/feel, Route 53 does take some time to fully understand
- Understanding which services can be referenced from Route53 in different scenarios (best practices)
- Ability to import Zone files from other sources more easily
- Domain Name Services
- Service Routing
- Speed to replicate changes
- Improved Reliability
- Made Red/Green deployments a possibility
- Improved our lookup time for our website
When working with AWS, Route 53 is hands down the better solution. If you live in GCP, then Google Cloud DNS is the way to go. GoDaddy is more of a consumer-facing product and is perfectly fine when Services are not being utilized in any Cloud Environment. Eventually, all of our DNS ends up in AWS or GCP...
November 29, 2021
Powerful DNS Management
Route 53 is quite powerful and more flexible than the managed DNS our registrar provides. It allows us to easily smooth over the many domain transfers we have to do as part of web hosting by allowing easy, longer term off-site DNS servers. We also use it with our own web servers, and Route 53 provides a lot of great features for load balancing.
- Host DNS for domains outside our registrar.
- Integrate with other AWS services.
- Constantly improve on basic quality of life for people like me who manage DNS.
- The advanced controls for editing a zone file can get a little verbose, especially when you just want to do something simple like set up a new TXT record.
- They need to make it easier to do common tasks like setting up a DKIM record, especially given their length.
- Some of the drop down boxes need to be set with better defaults when setting up a new zone file to make it quicker.
- Route 53 has saved me a lot of time with managing DNS for clients' domains.
- Route 53 does things that normal registrar DNS can't, allowing us to better serve customers.
- Route 53 helps us avoid downtime on our websites quite regularly.
GoDaddy is fine if you just want to have a domain and set up a few simple records. But if part of your business is transferring domains and constantly updating records for new websites, email changes, and security, then a registrar-based DNS service just won't cut it. Route 53 has the tools for an advanced user who wants more control to avoid pitfalls of transfer downtime.