Amazon Route 53 is designed to support the most common DNS record types. While a huge subset of record types exists, the AWS team has designed the service to be as inclusive as possible and to provide the record types that are most commonly used with internet-based applications and websites. The following resource types are supported on Route 53 at the time of writing:
- A and AAAA records are designed to resolve IPv4 (A) and IPv6 (AAAA) server names to IP addresses and allow browsers and applications to access our content via FQDN names
- CAA records are designed to allow us to specify which Certificate Authority (CA) servers are allowed to issue certificates for our domain and thus increase the security of our websites
- CNAME or Common Name records allow us to resolve complex DNS names to simpler or more general DNS names; for instance...