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

DNS Zone

Private Hosted Zone for Amazon VPC

A private hosted zone for a specific VPC refers to that VPC.