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Understand private DNS

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Understand private DNS

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- [Instructor] One very useful feature of Route 53 is the ability to configure Private DNS for a VPC. Let's explore a use case, illustrating why you might want to use Private DNS within a VPC, then go into the console and set it up. Let's say you are operating an application out of U.S. West and are using Route 53 to manage DNS. Within the U.S. West region, the current version of the application runs on an instance within a VPC. You can configure a public-hosted zone in Route 53 to direct users to this application. When a user tries to access the application, Route 53 will handle the DNS query and direct them to the appropriate instance. Meanwhile, in your Development VPC, you are hard at work on application updates. Prior to deploying the new version of your application, you want to test it from the perspective of a user. The scope of your testing includes using the actual domain for the application. In order to complete…

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