Amazon Route53


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
Feature | Support |
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CDN Balancing (DNS) | ![]() |
CDNs | ![]() |
Data | ![]() |
Integrated Solution | ![]() |
CDN BALANCING (DNS) |
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CDN Balancing (DNS) | ![]() |
Failover | ![]() |
Selection Level | Country level, state level (US) |
CDNS |
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CDNs in offer | N/A |
PoPs | N/A |
Purge All | N/A |
Instant Purge | N/A |
Control Panel | N/A |
Origin Push | N/A |
Origin Pull | N/A |
Origin Shield | N/A |
Custom Rules | N/A |
HTTP/2 Protocol | N/A |
SPDY Protocol | N/A |
Raw Access Logs | N/A |
Real Time Statistics | N/A |
Online Signup | N/A |
API | N/A |
Custom CNAMEs | N/A |
Shared SSL Certificates | N/A |
Custom SSL Certificates | N/A |
Wildcard SSL Certificates | N/A |
RTMP Streaming | N/A |
Video On Demand (VoD) | N/A |
Storage | N/A |
DATA |
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RUM Data | ![]() |
Synthetic Data | ![]() |
OTHER |
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Support | Phone and Email support (extra charge), Community Forum (free) |
Additional Features | Domain name registration, other AWS services |
Amazon Route53 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
Global Flat Fee | N/A |
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NA/EU Traffic (Low Volume) | N/A |
NA/EU Traffic (High Volume) | N/A |
APAC Traffic | N/A |
LATAM Traffic | N/A |
Queries | Standard Queries
Latency Based Routing Queries
Geo DNS Queries
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Extra Costs | Traffic Flow:
Hosted Zones:
Health Checks:
Optional Health Check Features:
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