Paying for What You Use
With Amazon Route 53, you don’t have to pay any upfront fees or commit to the number of queries the service answers for your domain. Like with other Amazon Web Services services, you pay as you go and only for what you use:
- Managing hosted zones: You pay a monthly charge for each hosted zone managed with Route 53.
- Serving DNS queries: You incur charges for every DNS query answered by the Amazon Route 53 service, except for queries to Alias A records that are mapped to Elastic Load Balancing instances, Cloud Front distributions, VPC endpoints, which are provided at no additional charge.
Your monthly bill will list your total usage and the amount for the Amazon Route 53 service separately from other Amazon Web Services services.
Hosted Zones and Records
- ¥3.575 per hosted zone / month for the first 25 hosted zones
- ¥0.715 per hosted zone / month for additional hosted zones
The monthly hosted zone prices listed above are not prorated for partial months. A hosted zone is charged at the time it's created and on the first day of each subsequent month. To allow testing, a hosted zone that is deleted within 12 hours of creation is not charged, however, any queries on that hosted zone will still incur charges at the rates below.
A hosted zone includes 10,000 records. For each record greater than 10,000 per zone, you will be charged ¥0.0095 per month.
Need more than 500 hosted zones or more than 10,000 records in a hosted zone? Please contact us.
Queries
The following query prices are prorated; for example, a hosted zone with 100,000 standard queries / month would be charged ¥0.286 and a hosted zone with 100,000 Latency-Based Routing queries / month would be charged ¥0.143
Standard Queries
- ¥2.86 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month
- ¥1.43 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month
Latency Based Routing Queries
- ¥4.29 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month
- ¥2.15 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month
Geo DNS Queries
- ¥5.01 per million queries -- first 1 Billion queries / month
- ¥2.50 per million queries -- over 1 Billion queries / month
IP-Based Routing Queries*
- ¥5.32 per million queries -- first 1 Billion queries / month
- ¥2.66 per million queries -- over 1 Billion queries / month
*No fees are charged for storage of up to 1,000 IP (CIDR) blocks, but you incur charges of ¥0.01 per month (prorated hourly) for each stored IP block above 1,000 blocks.
We charge the standard rate for the following DNS queries:
- Queries for which the domain name or subdomain name matches a record name but not the record type. For example, suppose you create a record for acme.example.com and specify a type of A. If we receive queries for acme.example.com with a type of AAAA, we'll charge for those queries. Some browsers automatically send both "A" and "AAAA" queries for a specified domain or subdomain name, so we recommend that you create both "A" and "AAAA" records where applicable.
- Queries for a record that doesn't exist (w.example.com).
Alias Queries
Queries for qualifying alias records are provided at no additional cost to Route 53 customers. You can create alias records for Amazon Web Services resources, such as:
- Elastic Load Balancers
- Amazon CloudFront distributions
For a complete list of the Amazon Web Services resource types that are supported for alias records, see Alias Target in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
DNS queries are free when both of the following are true:
- The domain or subdomain name (example.com or acme.example.com) and the record type (A) in the query match an alias record.
- The alias target is an Amazon Web Services resource other than another Route 53 record.
We charge the standard rate for DNS queries for which the domain name and type match a record, but the alias target of the record is a non-alias record in the same hosted zone. We do not charge for DNS queries if you create a chain of alias records that reference other alias records, and the last alias record in the chain references an Amazon Web Services resource such as an ELB load balancer. For example, suppose a.example.com is an alias record that references another alias record, b.example.com. If b.example.com routes traffic to an Amazon Web Services resource such as an ELB load balancer, DNS queries are free for both a.example.com and b.example.com.
Health Checks
Get Started With DNS Failover At No Additional Cost*
New and existing customers can create up to 50 health checks for Amazon Web Services endpoints** that are within or linked to the same Amazon Web Services account.
| Amazon Web Services Endpoints | Non-Amazon Web Services Endpoints | |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Health Checks | ¥3.58* per health check / month | ¥4.75 per health check / month |
| Optional health check features: HTTPS; String Matching; Fast Interval; Latency Measurement | ¥7.15 / month per optional feature | ¥14.30 / month per optional feature |
The monthly health check prices listed above are prorated for partial months.
Need more than 200 health checks? Please contact us.
* New and existing customers are not charged for health checks on up to 50 Amazon Web Services endpoints (described below) that are within or linked to their Amazon Web Services account (the “Offer”). The Offer is subject to the Western Cloud Data Customer Agreement for Amazon Web Services (Ningxia Region) and is a Special Pricing Program under the Amazon Web Services Service Terms for Amazon Web Services (Ningxia Region). You will be charged Amazon Web Services standard rates for any use that exceeds the usage amount provided at no additional cost under the Offer. Unused usage amounts remaining at the end of the Offer term do not roll over. When calculating your use of Amazon Web Services services under the Offer, we will aggregate your use across all Amazon Web Services China regions.
** An "Amazon Web Services endpoint" is a resource running within Amazon Web Services (e.g., an Amazon EC2 instance) that is provisioned within the same Amazon Web Services account as the health check or billed to the same account as the health check. Calculated health checks and metric based health checks are billed as health checks of an Amazon Web Services endpoint. You are not billed for health checks of Elastic Load Balancing resources. Health checks of Elastic Load Balancing resources are provisioned automatically by Amazon Web Services and are available for no additional charge as part of Amazon Route 53.
Route 53 VPC DNS
Queries that resolve locally to your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) will not be charged.
Route 53 Resolver
Route 53 Resolver endpoints
A Route 53 Resolver endpoint requires two or more IP addresses. Each IP address corresponds with one elastic network interface (ENI). A single outbound endpoint can be used by multiple VPCs that were created by multiple accounts within the same region.
- ¥ 0.82 per ENI / hour
Recursive DNS queries to and from on-premises networks
Only queries that pass through a Route 53 resolver endpoint going to or coming from on-premises resources will be charged. Queries that resolve locally to your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) will not be charged.
- ¥ 2.61 per million queries - first 1 Billion queries / month
- ¥ 1.31 per million queries - over 1 Billion queries / month
Route 53 Resolver Query Logs
Amazon Route 53 does not charge for Resolver query logs. However, when you configure DNS query logging, you incur Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon S3 or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose charges depending upon the destination target you choose for your logs. For information about log charges, see the Amazon CloudWatch pricing page for S3 and CloudWatch costs. For Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, see the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose pricing page.
DNSSEC
Amazon Route 53 does not charge you to enable DNSSEC validation for Amazon Route 53 Resolver.
Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
Domain Names
We charge a fee for each domain name stored in a domain list within a rule group. No fees are charged for domain names within managed domain lists.
- ¥ 0.003 per month (prorated hourly)
Queries
We charge for DNS queries originating from within VPCs that have firewall rule group associations and DNS queries traversing inbound Resolver endpoints from on-premises networks into VPCs that have firewall rule group associations. Please note that any DNS queries that result from CNAMEs are also charged.
- ¥ 3.92 per million queries processed - first 1 Billion queries / month
- ¥ 2.61 per million queries processed - over 1 Billion queries / month
Managed Domain Lists
Route 53 Application Recovery Controller
Zonal shift: You can use a zonal shift to recover your application from an issue in an Availability Zone. There is no additional charge for using zonal shift.
