Amazon Route 53

Route53 is fully accountable for our product DNS hosting and monitoring. It has boosted uptime and made administration easier. It's also simple to automate and monitor, making it easier to manage operational difficulties and development.

We decrease the time spent on operational tasks and utilize it to focus on development tasks, which cannot be archived without the assistance of a service provider such as Amazon Route 53. It's so inexpensive and affordable that anyone can get started with it, yet it's a highly dependable tool.

Amazon Route 53 is well suited if: 1. you always use other AWS services, and need good integration for some DNS service 2. you need support for simple traffic routing, e.g. based on latency or geolocation 3. you need support for complex traffic routing 4. you want to manage DNS via code

- Routing users to the closest or best-performing resources: Route 53 allows you to use geolocation and latency-based routing to route users to the resources that will give them the best performance.
- Load balancing: Route 53 can be used to distribute incoming traffic across multiple resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances or Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks, to improve the availability and scalability of your application.
- Managing domain names: Route 53 can be used to register domain names and manage DNS records, making it a one-stop solution for managing your domain name and routing traffic to your resources.

Scenarios where Route 53 is less appropriate include:Applications with very high query rates: Route 53 is designed to handle millions of queries per second, but if your application generates an extremely high query rate, you may need to use a specialized DNS service.Applications that require very low latency: Route 53 is designed to provide low-latency DNS service, but if your application requires ultra-low latency, you may need to use a specialized DNS service or a self-hosted DNS solution.Applications that require advanced security features: Route 53 provides basic security features such as DNSSEC, but if your application requires advanced security features such as DDoS protection, you may need to use a specialized DNS service.

If you want to get rid of route issues and you are hosting your applications on AWS Cloud, Amazon Route 53 is definitely a good choice once it is very easy to set up and you don't need to worry anymore regarding the routes and DNS settings once this tool handles all these things for you.

Great for customers who have a decent understanding of how DNS works and need a global & reliable service. Also helpful for customers looking for an integrated solution that can pair well with other AWS services, such as EC2 for website hosting. Not as good for customers that want an extremely simple, plug and play solution (don't get me wrong though, Route53 isn't SO difficult).

Very redundant, very fast, very easy to use the API, and very cheap.

Services needed high availability - It's always available (nearly). Haven't had too many major outages in the last 12 years. Working with Infrastructure as a Code platforms - Great API support that makes is easier to work with external infra management tools. Auto-Failover, and Advanced Routing - Good support for failovers and routing policies that can be mixed and matched. Different Network topologies - You can create internal VPC's and external look-ups seamlessly using the same set of tools.

when we had a issue with the primary DNS provider due to DDOS attack, the route 53 served all the DNS request and thus having a minimum impact to our business. There is no specific reason for choosing aws DNS but since we had this for almost 7 - 8 years , we never though of changing it to something else as we never encountered any issue with route 53

AWS route 53 is a highly available and reliable domain name service which works far better than on-premises based DNS service (i.e. better than Microsoft DNS) due to multiple reasons - 1. High Available 2. Reliable. 4. Secure. 5. SaaS offering 6. No Code/Low Code 7. Secure Service 8. Automation possibility

We are using Amazon Route 53 as our domain controller to manage our domains and sub domains. Route 53 always give us ability to manage easily our all domain environment. We are adding and removing DNS, TXT, MX and many more records.

In general, Amazon Route 53 is a pretty good fit for companies that want a highly available and scalable DNS solution that integrates seamlessly with other AWS services. It may not be as suitable for organizations that require advanced DNS features or have specific compliance requirements that are not met by the service.

If you provide services on the internet and those services are hosted in Amazon Web Services then Route 53 is the right solution for you. If you host services on multiple providers it may be more difficult to manage your DNS solely through Route 53, but it is still possible. Route 53 is a great DNS provider all around!

If you need to constantly take control of domains and transfer them into your registrar, using Route 53 will help, especially if you're already using other parts of AWS. If you need advanced controls for a lot of dynamic records, Route 53 has you covered. If you just want to have a simple website with maybe some email, you don't need it!

When you want the setup of DNS and domain registration to be done in couple of hours this will be the first place to go also the main reason for supporting the Route 53 service will be its integration with other AWS services should has CloudFront and SES services. With Route 53 and CloudFront combined you can have two layer of protection to your systems which will be one big thing when you see in terms of Cyber attacks.

Amazon Route 53 is very good if your team is big or small. For a single person to manage it, if you know what are you doing, you'll notice that it is faster than BIND to manage, for example, no need to add a serial number, and edit entries are also very fast. The only scenario where I think it's less appropriate is when you don't want to spend money dealing with DNS. But, even in that, the price of a single machine is not cheaper than to set up an AWS account and a new DNS zone.

If you need to manage DNS (as opposed to using some other service that wires it up for you), it's the best service to reach for. Nobody else is cheaper or more stable, it's completely fully featured, and it's accessible via APIs if you need that. The only reason I'd avoid Route53 is if I already have a DNS provider that I've consolidated my domains in, or if my organization is unable to use AWS.

AWS Route 53 is well suited for standard use (if you already use AWS) and for use with AWS services. Its Geo DNS (routing users to an endpoint, depending on detected user geography) works fine as well - can be used if you have users worldwide.

However, AWS Route 53 does not support forwarding or conditional forwarding options for domains used on an on-premise network.

Being in the AWS ecosystem, using Route 53 is more or less a given. There are other options out there but none are as integrated into the ecosystem as Route 53. Especially for your internal name resolving there realistically is no other viable alternative. For external name resolving there are other options out there with more options, but do you really need them.

Route53 is great with setting DNS entries, no matter what type they are.

Route 53 is the best DNS solution for those hosted in Amazon Web Services (you can easily set aliases to AWS resources): S3 Buckets, Elastic Load Balancers, etc. Any organization with multiple domains or a single domain hosted in AWS is a good fit. If you aren't hosted in AWS, it may offer fewer advantages and you may want to go with your hosting provider depending on who they are.

Great when used with AWS infrastructure. It gives you additional features and permissions that you do not get when you use Route53 with outside applications. This is the end-all be-all for using Route53, as all of its pros are lost when you migrate your resources outside of AWS and have to use its handicapped capabilities.

DNS is almost always necessary, and Route 53 does this well. Even when not using other AWS services, Route 53 provides a reliable service worth investing in. The cost to run a Route 53 instance is minimal and the reduced overhead of not having to directly manage your DNS servers is worth the investment.