# Route 53
A DNS with AWS Services.

You can:
- Register and manage domains
- Create various records sets on a domain
- Implement compex traffic flows (Blue/Green[^1], failovers)
- Continuously monitor records via health checks.
- Resolve VPC's outside of AWS.

[^1]: See [[Deployments|Deployments]].

## Use Cases
Use Route 53 to get your custom domains to point at your AWS Resources. 

![route_53_routing_example.png](./route_53_routing_example.png)
1. Incoming internet traffic.
2. Route traffic to our web backed by [[_ALB|ALB]].
3. Route traffic to an instance we use to tweak our AMI.
4. Route traffic to [[_API Gateway|API Gateway]], which powers our API.