Route 53

Question 1

What are the main services provided by Route 53

Answer 1

1. Register Domains
2. Host Zones.. managed nameservers

Question 2

What kind of service is it.

Answer 2

1. Global service and has single database
2. It is Globally Resilient

Question 3

Steps when creating a register

Answer 3

1. Route 53 checks if the domain exists with the registry
   2.Route 53 creates a zone file for the domain being created
   eg. animals4life.org - It just a database it contains all the DNS for the domain being created
   Along with the zone file created Route53 allocates name servers for this zone, these are servers that route 53 creates and manages.
   There will be 4 servers created for the zone.

Question 4

Zones inside route53

Answer 4

Route53 provides DNS zones as well as hosting for that zones.
i.e DNS as service.

Hosted on four managed name servers.

Question 5

DNS Record Types

Answer 5

Name Server Records (NS)
A and AAA records
CNAME Records - Host to Host
MX Record Type