--- name: AWS Route 53 description: Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way 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. Amazon Route 53 is fully compliant with IPv6 as well.nAmazon Route 53 effectively connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS ndash; such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, or Amazon S3 buckets ndash; and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. You can use Amazon Route 53 to configure DNS health checks to route traffic to healthy endpoints or to independently monitor the health of your application and its endpoints. Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow makes it easy for you to manage traffic globally through a variety of routing types, including Latency Based Routing, Geo DNS, and Weighted Round Robinmdash;all of which can be combined with DNS Failover in order to enable a variety of low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures. Using Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flowrsquo;s simple visual editor, you can easily manage how your end-users are routed to your applicationrsquo;s endpointsmdash;whether in a single AWS region or distributed around the globe. Amazon Route 53 also offers Domain Name Registration ndash; you can purchase and manage domain names such as example.com and Amazon Route 53 will automatically configure DNS settings for your domains. image: http://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/api-evangelist-site/company/logos/Networking_AmazonRoute53.png x-kinRank: "8" x-alexaRank: "" tags: - DNS - Amazon Web Services created: "2018-03-24" modified: "2018-03-24" url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-stack-providers/aws-route-53/master/_listings/aws-route-53/apis.yaml specificationVersion: "0.14" apis: - name: AWS Route 53 API description: Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service image: http://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/api-evangelist-site/company/logos/Networking_AmazonRoute53.png humanURL: "" baseURL: :/// tags: - DNS - Amazon Web Services properties: - type: x-openapi-spec url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-stack-providers/aws-route-53/master/_openapi/complete.yaml x-common: - type: x-documentation url: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/ - type: x-faq url: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/ - type: x-forum url: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=87 - type: x-pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/ - type: x-registrar-policies url: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/amazon-registrar-policies/ - type: x-service-health url: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ - type: x-service-level-agreement url: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla - type: x-sla url: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/ - type: x-website url: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/ include: [] maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane x-twitter: apievangelist email: info@apievangelist.com ---