What is Rote53 in AWS :
Translates domain names (like www.example.com
) into IP addresses (like 192.0.2.1
).
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service offered by AWS. It is used to manage domain names and route internet traffic to the appropriate resources within AWS or outside of it.
Key Feature :
- Domain Registration
- DNS Service
- Traffic Routing
- Health Check Management

What is Hosted Zone : A container for DNS records related to a specific domain and its subdomains. Wherever configuration related to domain should be done here.
NS Record: Authorized name server record (This should know where request should goes). As eg. As AWS / Hostinger / GoDaddy giving us 2-3 name server records.
SOA: Start of authority, used to designate the primary name server and administrator responsible for a zones.
Record Type :
- A : Route a traffic to an ipv4 address. here TTL use for cost optimization via reducing TTL time in min, hr. day.
- AAAA : Route a traffic to an ipv6 address (128 bits).
- CNAME: Route traffic to another domain name. To understand when we create LB in AWS we can’t get ip address it’s give us dns url , when we create S3 static website AWS we can’t get ip address it’s give us bucket url , also in cloud front service as well. Use only for sub-domain.
- MX: Specific mail servers ip address.
- TXT : It include Information that helps external network servers and services handle outgoing email from your domain. e.g Check via nslookup -type=TXT me.dev-ops.tech. Real life use case in our OTP in messages to verify identity. Another in lemon language — Verify domain belongs to this persion via TXT record.
- Alias: Alias use for root domain as ell sub-domain. (eg. me.dev-ops.tech). Alias are free to use in cloud.
- MX : Specifies mail server.
- PTR : It is just reverse A record. Convert domain name to ip address.
Health Check in Route53 : Monitor health check of endpoint