Amazon Route53 Concepts

External

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/route-53-concepts.html

Internal

• Amazon Route53
• DNS Concepts

Overview

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses a way to route end users to Internet applications by translating DNS names into IP addresses. Amazon Route 53 is fully compliant with IPv6.

Hosted Zone

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-route53-hostedzone.html

DNS Zone

Private Hosted Zone for Amazon VPC

A private hosted zone for a specific VPC refers to that VPC. See more details about configuring a VPC to use private hosted zones:

VPCs and Private Hosted Zones