Configuring logging in Amazon Route 53
Route 53, like every other AWS service, has a lot of interesting services. There are many unique features in Amazon Route 53 that you might not find in other DNS services. One of them is the unique routing policies that were already mentioned in the Introduction to computer networking section where Route 53 was introduced.
In this section, we are looking at Route 53 in the context of monitoring. There are a couple of things that can be monitored in Route 53, from something as basic as monitoring the status of the domain registration to know whether it is complete to showing the status of a domain to know when it is going to expire. You can also send DNS query logs of the configured hosted zones to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for further analysis. The DNS query logs are supported on both private DNS- and public DNS-hosted zones.
Important Note
A hosted zone is a logical collection of DNS records that makes it easy to manage DNS records that...
