Chapter 6

Azure DNS

Overview

Azure DNS is a domain name hosting and resolution service provided in Microsoft Azure. Customers can add public domain names that they own to Azure DNS and use Azure DNS to manage their DNS records using their Azure AD credentials.

Azure DNS is a completely managed service hosted across the Azure global network of DNS servers, providing an SLA of 100%. It uses AnyCast networking. This enables clients to obtain name-resolution services from the closest available Azure DNS server, reducing latency on DNS queries.

You can manage the Azure DNS service using the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, the Azure the CLI, the REST API, and SDKs, allowing integration with applications that require automated DNS-management functionality. ...

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