Learning about DNS and global routing with Amazon Route53
AWS Route53 is Amazon's global DNS, which is a service to help translate human-readable names into an IP address because, ultimately, computers connect to each other over IP addresses. DNS servers across the internet host billions of such name-to-IP address records, among other types of records. When you use your favorite browser to visit a particular website, such as example.com, your browser sends a request to your local DNS service provider, which, if necessary, refers the query to that domain's (example.com) authoritative DNS server. This authoritative DNS server responds with the IP address of the website you are trying to access, and your browser is then able to establish a connection with the website (in this case, example.com). This process of translating domain names to IP addresses is called name resolution.
Amazon Route53 offers three primary functions:
- Domain registration
- DNS routing ...
