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Amazon Route 53

Section 8 of 30

DNS service with advanced routing policies, health checks, and domain registration

60 minβ€’intermediate
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Key Takeaways

  • β€’Route 53 is AWS's managed DNS service with 100% availability SLA
  • β€’Hosted Zones contain DNS records: Public for internet, Private for VPC-internal resources
  • β€’Record types include A (IPv4), AAAA (IPv6), CNAME (hostname), and Alias (AWS resources)
  • β€’Routing policies control traffic distribution: Simple, Weighted, Latency, Failover, Geolocation, Geoproximity, IP-based, Multi-value
  • β€’Health checks monitor endpoints and enable automatic DNS failover for high availability

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