AWS Networking & Content Delivery

Amazon Route 53

Highly available DNS service with domain registration, health checks and traffic routing.

What is Amazon Route 53?

Route 53 is AWS's DNS service. It answers DNS queries for your domains, can register domains, and routes traffic based on health checks, latency, geography or weights.

Key features

  • Public and private hosted zones
  • Domain registration
  • Health checks and DNS failover
  • Latency, geo and weighted routing
  • DNSSEC signing

What it is used for

  • Domain DNS hosting
  • Failover between sites
  • Latency-based routing

When to use it

  • DNS for applications on AWS
  • Automatic failover between sites
  • Private DNS inside VPCs

When something else fits better

  • You only need basic DNS already included with your domain registrar

How pricing works

A monthly charge per hosted zone, plus per million queries; health checks and domains are charged separately. Prices change and differ by region; we confirm current costs for your setup before you commit.

Equivalent on Google Cloud

The closest Google Cloud service is Cloud DNS: scalable, reliable managed DNS for public and private zones.

How DomainHostly helps with Amazon Route 53

  • Plan: choose the right setup, size and region for your workload and budget.
  • Set up securely: configure Amazon Route 53 with least-privilege access, encryption and backups where they apply.
  • Migrate: move from shared hosting, your own servers or the other cloud with minimal downtime.
  • Run and optimise: monitoring, updates and regular cost reviews so you only pay for what you use.

Networking & Content Delivery: Private networks, DNS, load balancing, CDN and connectivity between your sites and the cloud.

What to consider: Networking & Content Delivery

  • Plan IP ranges up front so networks can connect to your offices and each other later without overlaps.
  • Put databases and internal services in private subnets; expose only load balancers or CDNs publicly.
  • Watch data-transfer (egress) charges; a CDN often reduces both cost and latency.

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