Route 53
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Overview
• Route53 is a Managed DNS (Domain Name System)
• DNS is a collection of rules and records which helps clients understand how to reach a server through URLs.
• In AWS, the most common records are:
www.google.com => 12.34.56.78 == A record (IPv4)
www.google.com => 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 == AAAA IPv6
search.google.com => www.google.com == CNAME: hostname to hostname
example.com => AWS resource == Alias (ex: ELB, CloudFront, S3, RDS, etc...)
