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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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