Route 53

• DNS as a Service
• DNS
  • Name to IP Resolution
  • Alias Names
• Domain Name Seller
  • GoDaddy
  • Amazon
  • Google
  • Microsoft
• NameServer
  • Will have records mapping Name to ip address

Process of Pointing a Domain name to AWS Resource

• Create a Hosted zone in Route 53 with your domain name
• From recordsets, take the records of type ns and update to the Domain nameservers
• Now add a records set for *.domain and add Alias record with ipaddress or targets (ELB, ALB, S3 and many)
• It takes time for the server records to be update to all the name servers

nslookup <domainname>