Changing the DNS A recordes to the Domain Provider
AWS Block Diagram
AWS Route 53 is the AWS Proprietary routing systems that provides the DNS services over the hosted cloud resources.
We need to create the hosted zones on the AWS dashboard and point the SOA,NS records to the domain providers dashboard to flow traffic to the hosted resources over the AWS cloud
AWS Route 53 : Routing Mechanisms :
Route 53 : Simple Routing
Here routing works on providing the EC2 public IP addresses to the Route 53 A record
Route 53 : Weighted Load Balancing
Load balancing is done based on load balancers where weight is considerd as the metric to route traffic through.
Route 53 : Grolocation Routing
Routing done on metric of locations & regions to provide faster response time and low latency over the hosted cloud resources.
Route 53 : Failover Routing
Routing done based on primary and secondary to provide immunity over failovers by hosting resources on different cloud regions.