DVA-02-Notes/Route 53/_Route53.md

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/Green¹ , failovers)
• Continuously monitor records via health checks.
• Resolve VPC's outside of AWS.

Use Cases

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

1. Incoming internet traffic.
2. Route traffic to our web backed by _ALB.
3. Route traffic to an instance we use to tweak our AMI.
4. Route traffic to _API Gateway, which powers our API.
5. Route traffic to _CloudFront which serves our _S3 static hosted website.
6. Route traffic to an Elastic IP (EIP), which is a static IP that hosts our company's Minecraft server???

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1. See Deployments. ↩︎