Amazon Route53

Amazon Route53
Amazon Route53 diagram

Amazon ROUTE53 Description

Amazon Route53 is the DNS web service of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s part of the larger AWS ecosystem that also includes, among others:

  • Storage: S3, Glacier
  • CDN: Cloudfront
  • Networking: domain name registration, Traffic Flow
  • Databases: DynamoDB, SimpleDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, Kinesis
  • Application services: payments, email service, API gateway, transcoding, queue and notification services
  • Management: directory service, Elastic MapReduce, key management service
  • Deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy
  • Compute: Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic MapReduce, Lambda

Route53 allows the routing of users both to other AWS services and to non-Amazon infrastructure. Management of the DNS and of other AWS services can be done via a graphical web interface.

Amazon’s Route53 Traffic Flow product enables clients to route traffic according to different preferences, such as Round Robin, latency based routing or Geo DNS. All types come with DNS failover.

Amazon provides a 100% available SLA for Route53, meaning that the company warrants that the service is up and running all the time, every month.

Amazon Route53 feature overview

Fully supported Partially supported Additional costs Not supported Unknown
FeatureSupport
CDN balancing (DNS)Fully supported
CDNsPartially supported
DataFully supported
Integrated solutionNot supported

CDN balancing (DNS)

CDN balancing (DNS)Fully supported
FailoverFully supported
Selection levelCountry level, state level (US)

CDNs

CDNs in offerN/A
PoPsN/A
Purge AllN/A
Instant PurgeN/A
Control panelN/A
Origin PushN/A
Origin PullN/A
Origin ShieldN/A
Custom RulesN/A
HTTP/2 ProtocolN/A
SPDY ProtocolN/A
Raw Access LogsN/A
Real time statisticsN/A
Online signupN/A
APIN/A
Custom CNAMEsN/A
Shared SSL CertificatesN/A
Custom SSL CertificatesN/A
Wildcard SSL CertificatesN/A
RTMP StreamingN/A
Video On Demand (VoD)N/A
StorageN/A

Data

RUM dataNot supported
Synthetic dataFully supported

Other

SupportPhone and Email support (extra charge), Community Forum (free)
Additional featuresDomain name registration, other AWS services

AMAZON ROUTE35 Price Overview

The Rotue53 pricing is divided by the type of routing used by the client.

Queries to Alias records that are mapped within the AWS infra are free, this includes queries to:

  • Elastic Load Balancers
  • Amazon CloudFront distributions
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments
  • Amazon S3 website buckets

Pricing Information

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