Amazon Route 53 is a cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service that is extremely accessible, while it also illustrates much scalability. It is intended to provide developers and companies with a highly dependable and cost-effective method of routing ‘end-users’ to web applications. That can be accomplished by converting domain names such as “www.example.com” into numeric IP addresses, that computers use to communicate with one another. Finally, it should be mentioned that IPv6 is also fully supported by Amazon Route 53.
In addition, Route 53 links user requests to AWS infrastructure such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, and Amazon S3 buckets, as well as technology outside of AWS. You may configure DNS health checks using it, then use Route 53 Application Recovery Controller to constantly evaluate and manage your apps’ capacity to recover from failures.
Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow
It is extremely important to highlight the fact that Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow simplifies the traffic management worldwide, through a variety of routing types such as:
- Latency Based Routing
- Geo DNS
- Geoproximity
- Weighted Round Robin
Everything from the above can be efficiently liked with DNS Failover in order to implement a variety of low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures. By utilizing the platform’s Traffic Flow’s easy-to-use visual editor, the way the end-users are routed to the endpoints of a web application can be easily managed. Furthermore, this web service provides a Domain Name Registration. More specifically, the registration to a Domain name by AWS provides someone with the opportunity to complete a purchase or administer a specific domain name such as ‘example.com’. Subsequently, Route 53 will automatically set up the DNS settings for the domain related to your interests.
Amazon Route 53: An extremely available and dependable tool
AWS’s highly available and dependable infrastructure is utilized in order to develop Amazon Route 53. AWS’s DNS servers include a dispersed structure, which ensures a consistent ability to direct the end-users to the business’s application. Moreover, advanced technological implementations like AWS Route 53 Traffic Flow and routing control can aid in increasing the dependability of your business. Specifically, by enabling you to create a simplified failover, which can redirect your visitors to a different place if your primary application endpoint goes down. Route 53 has been developed to deliver the level of dependability that critical applications demand.
You can use it with other Amazon Web Services
Always bear in mind that Route 53’s design is compatible with a great variety of different AWS features. As a result, the aforementioned Amazon DNS web service could be easily used to map domain names to:
- Amazon EC2 instances
- Amazon S3 buckets
- Amazon CloudFront distributions
Subsequently, the usage of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) in collaboration with Amazon Route 53, enables every business to gain authority on who is able to update the business’s DNS data. You can use Route 53 to map your zone apex (example.com versus www.example.com) to your Elastic Load Balancing instance, Amazon CloudFront distribution, AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment, API Gateway, VPC endpoint, or Amazon S3 website bucket using a feature called Alias record.
Using an AWS Route 53 functionality, such as ‘Alias record’ a company can link its zone apex (example.com versus www.example.com) to:
- The Elastic Load Balancing instance
- The Amazon CloudFront distribution
- The AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment
- The API Gateway
- The VPC endpoint
- The Amazon S3 website bucket
How simple is this implementation?
First of all, Amazon Route 53 can start answering your DNS queries within minutes. You just have to have signed up for the self-service option on AWS’s website. What is more, every business is provided with the ability to utilize the AWS Management Console or the simplified Application Programming Interface (API) of AWS to change its DNS settings. AWS’s API can also be integrated automatically into an organizations’ entire web application. For example, every time someone wants to start a new EC2 instance, they can utilize Route 53’s API to establish a new DNS record. Ultimately, the simple visual policy editor in Route 53 Traffic Flow makes it really easy to establish advanced routing rules for a business’s web apps.
If you have any questions related to Amazon Route 53, or you are looking for more data-driven solutions for your business, do not hesitate to contact RENVIS, an AWS registers partner.