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Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable 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 human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.

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What is the difference between Anycast and GeoDNS / GeoIP wrt HA?

Based on the Wikipedia description of Anycast, it includes both the distribution of a domain-name-to-many-IP-mapping across many DNS servers as well as replying to clients with the most geographically close (or fastest) server. In the context of a…
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How do I set an MX record in Route53 for a GoDaddy domain?

Can't seem to find an answer to this question on AWS' forum, not in the Route53 manual, nor on Stackoverflow/Serverfault in a way that makes sense...and GoDaddy's support sure as heck ain't got an answer: How do I set an MX record in Route53 for a…
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Amazon Route 53, restrict IAM user access to single record set

I would like to programmatically change the CNAME of a Record Set inside an Hosted Zone on Amazon Route 53, but I would like to restrict the access of the user ONLY to that record set. For what I have seen on the documentation IAM allow to specify…
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What is an Amazon Route53 "Alias" DNS record?

AWS Route53 Alias value Consider a domain registered on AWS Route53. HTTP requests to this domain should be served from a AWS CloudFront CDN distribution. In order to achieve this, an alias A record is defined: dig results However, dig results…
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How to config Amazon Route53 working without www in sub-domain

edit: Amazon now supports this. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/root-domain-website-hosting-for-amazon-s3.html I have my domain config in Route53 at Amazon AWS exec ping command in my domain without www $ ping mydomain.com.br ping: cannot…
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Access Amazon S3 Static Website Through IPv6

I host a static website on Amazon S3 with DNS hosted on Amazon Route 53. I'd like my site to be accessible via IPv4 and IPv6 (because it's about time). When I use the Route 53 AWS Management Console to add an A (IPv4) "Alias" record for my S3…
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Wildcard Subdomain (*.example.com) with Amazon Route53 DNS and S3

I am hosting a static website using Amazon Route53 for DNS and S3 for html files. It is working fine. Current Setup is: example.com. A ALIAS s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. www.example.com. CNAME…
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How do you create a zone apex alias that points to a Elastic Load Balancer in the Route 53 GUI?

I created aliases for my domain name's zone apex using the ELB CLI as described in Elastic Load Balancing Developer Guide. I also added a AAAA record using the --rr-type AAAA flag, which is not described in the guide. The Route 53 GUI is populated…
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AWS CloudFormation returning "Invalid request" when trying to create a AWS::Route53::RecordSet

I'm at a loss on this one. 99% of the time CloudFormation is pretty good at giving you some kind of debug message you can work with, but "Invalid request" has left me stumped, especially when the resource is pretty simple to begin with. This is said…
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set Google Apps SPF record in Amazon AWS Route 53

I'm using the new AWS GUI for Route 53 to setup my domain records. However, the AWS console won't accept the recommended Google Apps SPF record, v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all (found here). It keeps giving me an error stating The record set…
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Godaddy vs. Route53 for DNS

I have my website set up as an EC2 instance and my DNS is currently Godaddy. I'm considering switching to Amazon AWS Route53 for DNS. The one thing I noticed however is that Route53 charges monthly fees but I never get any bills from Godaddy.…
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AWS Route 53 Pricing

I have set up a Tomcat Server on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Load Balancer. I also have a domain name registered with 1&1, e.g. www.example.com. I would like to point the domain name at the Elastic Load Balancer. I have read that the best option is to use…
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Similarities and Differences between CNAME record and Route 53 ALIAS record

Can somebody point out the similarities and differences between the normal CNAME record and Amazon's Route 53 ALIAS record. ?
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My domain on AWS Route 53 wont propagate

Hi have created a record set for the domain: lazycatthemes.com on Route 53 (domain was purchased through route 53) and gave it the 4 NS settings that Route 53 told me to configure: ns-368.awsdns-46.com ns-1963.awsdns-53.co.uk ns-848.awsdns-42.net…
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HTTPS redirect from a naked domain (example.com) to a full domain 'www.example.com' without an error?

I'm trying to Redirect non-www requests to www on Amazon Route 53. I made an S3 bucket with the name of the naked domain and configure the bucket properties to redirect from example.com to www.example.com, and then in Route 53 create an alias for…
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