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My only problem with Route 53 is the cost. Just about any web host offers their own DNS servers as a free service. I can fully manage zone records at SoftLayer
by dangrossman 15y ago
My only problem with Route 53 is the cost. Just about any web host offers their own DNS servers as a free service. I can fully manage zone records at SoftLayer or Linode with unlimited queries at no extra cost.
10 million monthly queries on 20 domains would cost me $15/month at Amazon.
It'd only be $5 per month at DNSMadeEasy, a company with a far longer record of reliable DNS service than Amazon.
- burgerbrain 15y agoThe advantage with Route 53 is really when you are already using AWS stuff. At that point sure it costs a bit more (but still less than the amount of change that I lose in my sofa in the same period of time), but it's the same place as everything else. Same bill and stuff.
- moonlighter 15y agoExactly. Using just AWS Route 53 'standalone' probably doesn't make much sense, but when used in combination with EC2 and their Elastic Load Balancer it starts to make a lot of sense. And the fact that you can use their APIs to make programmatic changes (say quickly change a A or CNAME record to point elsewhere) is fantastic.