Route 53
- DNS as a Service
- DNS
- Name to IP Resolution
- Alias Names
- Domain Name Seller
- GoDaddy
- Amazon
- 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>
