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Implementing DevOps on AWS
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Implementing DevOps on AWS

by Vaselin Kantsev
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
4h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Route53 ALIAS records

This is a special in-house type of DNS record specific to the Route53 service.

For an AWS user an Alias record is a great alternative to a CNAME (for supported resources).

Some of the main advantages are:

  • Aliases resolve directly to an IP address, saving the extra lookup which a CNAME would require
  • Alias records are supported at the zone apex, so you could create an alias which uses the top of a domain (for example mydomain.com)
  • Alias records allow advanced Route53 features such as weighted/latency/geo routing and failovers
  • There is no AWS cost associated with Alias lookups

Note

NB: A Route53 Alias record can currently only point to a limited set of AWS resources. For more information please see: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resource-record-sets-choosing-alias-non-alias.html ...

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