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DNS Name Resolution and Routing

DNS Name Resolution and Routing

Welcome to this lesson. In this lesson I'm going to cover DNS resolution and the features of Amazon Route 53. So Route 53 is a service that we can use for DNS resolution. We can create things called hosted zones. Now you can have public and private hosted zones. A private hosted zone is just for your internal VPC based resources. Whereas a public hosted zone can be used from the internet so anyone can look up the DNS records that you're publishing. So here we might have a hosted zone called example.com and we've got a couple of records in there. The hosted zone represents a set of DNS records belonging to a specific domain. So here if somebody on the internet is looking for example.com they will then get a result And that result will then allow them to connect to that web service. And in this particular example, this is a public hosted zone. Now we can also have private hosted zones as well. So here we have my company dot local. And here we have our instances and our database servers.…

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