Now if only they would lower the price; the issue that I had with Route 53 was that you pay not only for successful queries, but also for failed lookups (NXDOMA

Now if only they would lower the price; the issue that I had with Route 53 was that you pay not only for successful queries, but also for failed lookups (NXDOMAIN). So if someone does a lookup for "nonexistantsubdomain.yourdomain.com", you pay for the query - even though Amazon didn't serve anything. Not a huge deal, but we had a few domains that were getting hammered with spam/bruteforcing, and with Route 53 there is no way to find or block them - you just gotta keep paying for the queries.