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# Route 53

## Route 53 ("DNS")

Allows management of website domains and DNS records.

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* domain registration
* DNS service
* Health checking
* Weighted Round-Robin Routing is possible
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* Latency-Based Routing
* Geolocation Routing

### [Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/)

No Free Tier available

* Number of hosted zones
* Traffic flow (per policy)
* Standard queries
* Latency based routing
* Geo DNS queries
* Health checks
* Register/transfer a domain

#### How to configure

* create a domain ($)
* hosted zones