Amazon Route 53 is a cloud-based Domain Name System (DNS) that help developers and businesses to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.
Customer Reviews
Andriy S.
Advanced user of Amazon Route 53The best features of AWS 53 service its simplicity to obtain and manage domain. AWS simple interface makes it great user experience even for non-it person. AWS 53 service is easily to associate with other AWS services. In addition to web interface - there is a possibility to create and completely manage domain via AWS CLI.
Comparative to other popular services AWS 53 has very detailed availability and performance monitoring where you can set up an email or sms alert message if you website is down.
With DNS failover if your node is not healthy you can reroute traffic to another resource. It allows to set a specific forwarding rules and do it on the DNS level, which is the fastest way
The disadvantage is its complexity if you go beyond creating "A" and "C" records. To the best of my knowledge AWS never has any discounts like (1-st year $.99) like godaddy and gator frequently have.
IT'S VERY, VERY HARD to transfer domain even to another aws account when we tried to transfer domain to our customers. It took 2-3 weeks many calls to support and a lot of pain.
Choose AWS if you want to have all your domains in one place, has a technical skill to work with AWS CLI and will use their alerts or DNS fail-over service to redirect traffic to another place in case your main node is not available.
Easy way to obtain domain, create A record to specific IP and have all domain in one place. The main benefit comparative to other services is health alarms and potentially to create a very complicated settings in the future
