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Pointing a domain to your EC2s with Route 53

Pointing a domain to your EC2s with Route 53 - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Pointing a domain to your EC2s with Route 53

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- So we just set up an application load balancer to balance the web traffic to our healthy instances, but we don't want our users going to that long and ugly URL that AWS gave us. We want to use our own domain name. DNS, or domain name system, it's like the phone book of the internet. It takes a domain name like linkedin.com, and it looks up the IP address because telling your colleagues to connect with you at 108.174.10.10, it just doesn't sound as good as saying, "Hey, connect with me at linkedin.com." AWS has a DNS service that they host, and it's called Route 53. And it's easy to remember because the internet standard is that all DNS servers communicate over port 53. And here's the old icon for Route 53, which looks like, well, I'm not really sure what that looks like. Route 53 isn't just a regular DNS hosting service like GoDaddy has for linking a domain name to an IP address. It has additional features and…

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