DNS best practices for Amazon Route 53
Networking & Content Delivery Blog
This article provides best practices for managing DNS using Amazon Route 53, AWS's service for domain name registration and DNS resolution.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Controlling access to your Route 53 namespace to prevent unwanted changes that could lead to domain loss or outages
- Managing hosted zones, including access controls, delegation depth, and handling non-existent records
- Properly delegating subdomains to separate hosted zones to avoid ambiguous responses
- Choosing appropriate time-to-live (TTL) values to balance responsiveness and query load
- Conclusion summarizing the benefits of using Route 53 and following these best practices
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