AWS - Route 53

Overview of Route 53 (Dynamic DNS services)

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

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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.

0-255 is the weight scale and 128 is called as 50-50 routing

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.