Amazon Route 53 is a reliable and scalable DNS web service. DNS is an internet protocol, and translates human-readable names, such as www.example.com, to numeric IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6) that computers use to connect with each other. In other words, it helps end users (humans or programmatic) to route to the hosted applications over the internet.
At the time of writing, Amazon Route 53 mainly provides the following three features:
- Domain name registration (www.example.com)
- Resource health check (usually EC2 instances)
- Routing internet traffic to the applications hosted over the internet with public IPs (IPv4 or IPv6)