Route 53

Overview

Main functions: register DNS, host DNS, health checking

Hosting: can configure to route traffic to AWS services

Hosting

Routing traffic to AWS resources:

• CloudFront
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Load Balancer
• EC2
• Website hosted in S3
• RDS database
• WorkMail

Working with Records:

• Routing policy - simple, fail-over, .... more complex ones
• Alias records (vs. non-alias, normal ones)
  • Route traffic to selected resources (like CloudFront & S3)
  • Automatically recognizes changes in resource

Public / Private Hosted Zones:

• Public hosted zones expose to Internet
• Private hosted zones for within VPC

Traffic Flow:

• Use DNS resource record (RR) can be complex when dealing with multiple sites/locations/policies
• Traffic flow provides a visual editor

Health Check & Fail Over

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CloudTrail to capture API requests