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Route 53

Route 53

- [Instructor] If you've ever set up a website with yourpersonaldomain.com, you probably used a domain name registrar to purchase and set up your domain. You might have used something like GoDaddy or Namecheap, to name a few popular commercial domain name registrars. AWS, of course, has its own service where you can purchase and set up domain names, but it can do so much more. It's called Amazon Route 53, and it's a highly scalable cloud Domain Name System, or DNS. It allows you to reliably and cost-effectively route your end users to your internet applications. It can connect user requests to infrastructure running on AWS, like an EC2 instance or an S3 bucket. It can also route users to infrastructure outside of AWS, acting as a DNS service for domains purchased at other domain name registrars. Route 53 is designed to be integrated with other AWS services, like mapping your domain names to your EC2 instance or S3 bucket. It's simple to set up, fast, secure, and cost effective. You…

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