Component description

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS). It offers an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to seamlessly integrate general domain routing with AWS services. This includes, for example, the fast and efficient deposit of validation entries for Amazon SES (mail dispatch) or AWS Certificate Manager (free SSL certificates). During setup, root360 transfers existing DNS records (provided as zone files) of existing domains (no registration by root360) in Amazon Route 53 and adapts the zone files to the specific endpoints of the infrastructure (e.g. CloudFront, Load Balancer, SES, certificates). Additional domains or entries can be added optionally at any time, whereby root360 always performs a plausibility check of the entries. Furthermore, Amazon Route 53 can also be used for "Geolocation Based Routing" or "Weighted Routing".

Variants

• Static Routing (default): example.com will be resolved to an ip or an other domain name

• Geolocation Based Routing: Routes traffic based on the location of your users to different destinations

• Weighted Routing: associate multiple resources with a single domain name and choose how much traffic is routed to each resource (e.g. migration of old hosting environment to root360).

Common use cases

Route your domain to an ip or domain name (default)

With static routing end users are routed to internet applications by translating names like example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 .

Reaching your AWS Load Balancer from your domain without www.

With Route 53 it is still possible to have the domain example.com point to the load balancer. This limitation is described in RFC 1035 .

Validation of SSL certificates

For secure access to a website, it is important that the connection to the website is encrypted by SSL. The easiest way is to use SSL certificates from AWS Certificate Manager. This offers the possibility to validate the domain for the certificate via DNS, so that you don't have to worry about renewing the certificates. By managing a DNS zone in Route 53 of root360 a fast validation of SSL certificates is guaranteed.

If you want to learn more about the integration of SSL certificates, then have a look at [Import] Choose right SSL certificate and integration

Validation of AWS Simple Email Service

AWS offers with the Simple Email Service the possibility to use a highly available SMTP server. In order to be able to send emails via this service, the domain must also be validated. Due to its high reliability Route 53 thus also offers a robust solution that prevents the sending of e-mails from becoming impossible. If you want to learn more about the Simple Email Service, then have a look here [Import] Options to send e-mails

Requesting DNS (Amazon Route 53)

If you want to request DNS (Amazon Route 53), you can do so by sending an E-Mail to service@root360.de or creating a ticket in the ticket system.

Required information

To manage the DNS records of an existing domain in Route 53 we need the records as zone files to import them. Ideally you can download a zone file from your existing DNS provider. If this is not possible, you can also create a zone file yourself. Below you will find an example zonefile:

example.com.             60 A     204.13.248.106
                       3600 MX    10 mail.example.com.
                       3600 MX    20 vpn.example.com.
                       3600 MX    30 mail.example.com.
                       3600 TXT   "v=spf1 includespf.dynect.net ~all"
mail                  14400 A     204.13.248.106
vpn                      60 A     216.146.45.240
webapp                   60 A     216.146.46.10
webapp                   60 A     216.146.46.11
www                   43200 CNAME example.com.

Pricing

For AWS pricing see https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/.

For root360 Managed Services pricing please contact our Service Team.

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