Route 53

Overall:

• Global Resilient service with single database of DSN records (hosted host)
• 2 services
  • 1. register domain names
  • 2. Host zones managed nameservers
• host zone = database for the DSN records, which was allocated 4 different name server to host the zone, the referred DSN authoritative for a domain (.org,.io…)
• send back IP when users make a DSN. The IP was then sent to the server communication under HTTP
• can be public or private (VPC linked)
• registry maintains the zones for a Top-Level Domain (TLD)
• Registrar has relationships with the .org TLD zone manager allowing domain registration

DNS records types

Public hosted zones

Private Hosted zones

cname vs alias

Routing Policies

Health checks

Interoperability (work with 3rd party)

DNSSEC