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Route 53 overview

Route 53 overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Route 53 overview

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Amazon Route 53 is a global domain name system service that allows you to route traffic across various AWS regions and external systems outside of AWS. It provides a variety of routing policies that you can implement to meet your required use cases and automatically monitor the state and performance of your applications, servers, and other resources using health checks. With Route53, you can register your own domain name, transfer a domain from another domain registrar, create health checks, route traffic flows, configure DNS resolvers, and many more. Basically, a domain name system, or DNS, is just a system that routes a domain name to a particular IP address. Say for example, your website is running on a server with an IP address of 49.143.173.201. You then bought a new domain name in Rockstrategy 3 called tutoralsdojo.com and set up a new DNS record that points to the IP address of your web server. If a user visits the…

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