Services or capabilities described in this page might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China Regions. Only “Region Availability” and “Feature Availability and Implementation Differences” sections for specific services (in each case exclusive of content referenced via hyperlink) in Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China Regions form part of the Documentation under the agreement between you and Sinnet or NWCD governing your use of services of Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region or Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region (the “Agreement”). Any other content contained in the Getting Started pages does not form any part of the Agreement.
Amazon Route 53 Documentation
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 reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other. Amazon Route 53 is designed to be compliant with IPv6 as well.
Amazon Route 53 connects user requests to infrastructure running in Amazon Web Services – such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, or Amazon S3 buckets – and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of Amazon Web Services. You can use Amazon Route 53 to configure DNS health checks, then continuously monitor your applications’ ability to recover from failures and control application recovery with Route 53 Application Recovery Controller.
Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow enables you to manage traffic through a variety of routing types, including Latency Based Routing, Geo DNS, Geoproximity, and Weighted Round Robin—all of which can be combined with DNS Failover in order to help you enable various low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures. Using Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow’s visual editor, you can manage how your end-users are routed to your application’s endpoints.
Key features
Route 53 Resolver
Get recursive DNS for your Amazon VPC and on-premises networks. Create conditional forwarding rules and DNS endpoints to resolve custom names mastered in Amazon Route 53 private hosted zones or in your on-premises DNS servers.
Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
Protect your recursive DNS queries within the Route 53 Resolver. Create domain lists and build firewall rules that filter outbound DNS traffic against these rules.
Route 53 Application Recovery Controller: Readiness Check
Periodically audit your resources across Availability Zones or Regions for recovery readiness.
Route 53 Application Recovery Controller: Routing Control
Use on/off switches, integrated with DNS records of your top-level resources, to failover traffic.
Route 53 Application Recovery Controller: Safety Rules
Make sure that specific rules are followed during failover to protect automated recovery actions from impairing availability.
Traffic flow
Traffic management: route end users to endpoints for your application based on geoproximity, latency, health, and other considerations.
Latency based routing
Route end users to Amazon Web Services regions based on latency.
Geo DNS
Route end users to a particular endpoint that you specify based on the end user’s geographic location.
Private DNS for Amazon VPC
Manage custom domain names for your internal Amazon Web Services resources without exposing DNS data to the public Internet.
DNS Failover
Automatically route your website visitors to an alternate location to avoid site outages.
Health Checks and Monitoring
Amazon Route 53 can monitor the health and performance of your application as well as your web servers and other resources.
DNSSEC
Enable DNSSEC signing for existing and new public hosted zones, as well as DNSSEC validation for Amazon Route 53 Resolver.
CloudFront Zone Apex Support
Enable visitors to access your website at the zone apex (or "root domain")—for example, example.com instead of www.example.com.
S3 Zone Apex Support
Enable visitors to access your website hosted on Amazon S3 at the zone apex (or "root domain").
Amazon ELB Integration
Amazon Route 53 is integrated with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
Management Console
Use the Amazon Web Services Management Console to manage Amazon Route 53 using a graphical user interface.
Weighted Round Robin
Amazon Route 53 offers Weighted Round Robin (WRR) functionality.
Functionality
Your DNS records are organized into “hosted zones” that can store DNS records for your domain. Upon creating a hosted zone, Route 53 automatically populates your hosted zone with the names of four Route 53 name servers across four different top-level domains to increase the level of availability. If you don’t have a domain name, you can search for available domains and register them using the Route 53 console. If you have an existing domain name, you can opt to have it transferred to Route 53’s management so that you can manage both your domain names and your DNS configuration using Route 53. You can add, delete or change records in your hosted zone using the Amazon Management Console or by calling the ChangeResourceRecordSetAPI.
Additional Information
For additional information about service controls, security features and functionalities, including, as applicable, information about storing, retrieving, modifying, restricting, and deleting data, please see https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/. This additional information does not form part of the Documentation for purposes of the Sinnet Customer Agreement for Amazon Web Services (Beijing Region), Western Cloud Data Customer Agreement for Amazon Web Services (Ningxia Region) or other agreement between you and Sinnet or NWCD governing your use of services of Amazon Web Services China Regions.
