DVA-02-Notes/Study/Route 53/Use Cases.md

# [[_Route53|Route 53]] 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]].
5. Route traffic to [[_CloudFront|CloudFront]] which serves our [[_S3|S3]] static hosted website.
6. Route traffic to an Elastic IP (EIP), which is a static IP that hosts a game server.