Chapter 8, Custom Domain with SSL

1. AWS Route 53 is a managed service of Amazon. It offers services for domain registration, routing internet traffic to your AWS resource for a specific domain, and creating a health checkpoint for your running AWS resources.
2. Domain name servers (DNS) is a mechanism to maintain and translate the domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) because computers communicate with each through IP addresses and it is hard to remember. Hence DNS helps to manage domain names against IP addresses.

 

3. ACM generates the SSL certificate against a domain name. If you use an SSL certificate along with your domain name, it enables HTTPS protocol for transitioning through your domain. HTTPS is a secure protocol that encrypts the data over the internet and provides a security for your confidential information transfer through your domain.

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