Route 53
The global DNS service that AWS provides is Route 53. This is one of the few services in AWS that is not tied to any specific region. The Route 53 service also has one of the most substantial commitments, stating that it will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon Route 53 100% Available
The following three components of Route 53 are of foundational importance:
- Registration (and management) of domain names
- The DNS service
- Health checks (and subsequentially traffic routing) for your web application based on the fact that it’s functional, available, and reachable
This section will cover some of the basic information about the Route 53 service and especially any topics that would be relevant to know for the Security Specialty Exam.
Knowing the difference between a domain and a hosted zone
One of the first things to understand between a domain and a hosted zone is that a domain is an internet construct of domain name servers that...