Syllaro Academy

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Route 53 and DNS

Understand how DNS turns a domain name into an IP address, what Amazon Route 53 does, its main routing policies, and how health checks support failover.

Beginner 16 minutes 4 Learning Objectives
  1. Explain what DNS does and how a domain name resolves to an IP address
  2. Describe the three main functions of Amazon Route 53
  3. Compare the main Route 53 routing policies and when to use each
  4. Explain how health checks support DNS failover