Interesting: Amazon is now getting into the DNS server world (apparently not
registrar, however).
Love the pricing: $1.00 per month for the hosted zones you manage, $0.50 per
million queries for the first billion queries, and $0.25 per million queries
above a billion.
I'd be curious just how many queries normal users have in a month! Likely
crawlers are the major source.
-- Owen
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Amazon Web Services <[email protected]>
> Date: December 6, 2010 3:01:35 AM MST
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Announcing New DNS Service from AWS (Amazon Route 53)
>
> Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,
>
> We're excited to introduce today a highly available and scalable Domain Name
> System (DNS) service - Amazon Route 53. It is designed to give developers and
> businesses a reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet
> applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into
> the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each
> other. Route 53 effectively connects user requests to infrastructure running
> in Amazon Web Services (AWS) -- such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
> (Amazon EC2) instance, an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, or an Amazon Simple
> Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket -- and can also be used to route users to
> infrastructure outside of AWS.
>
> A reliable, cloud-based DNS service has been one of the most requested
> offerings by our customers. With Route 53, you can create a "hosted zone" to
> add DNS records for a new domain or transfer DNS records for a domain you
> currently own. Route 53 is also designed to work well with other AWS
> offerings, such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). By using AWS IAM
> with Route 53, you can control who in your organization can make changes to
> your DNS records. In the future, we plan to add additional integration
> features such as the ability to automatically tie your Amazon Elastic Load
> Balancer instances to a DNS name, and the ability to route your customers to
> the closest EC2 region.
>
> Route 53 is also designed to be fast and simple. It uses a global network of
> DNS servers to respond to end users with low latency and has an easy-to-use,
> self-service API. There are no long-term contracts or minimum usage
> commitments for using Route 53 - you pay $1.00 per month for the hosted zones
> you manage, $0.50 per million queries for the first billion queries, and
> $0.25 per million queries above a billion. To learn more about Amazon Route
> 53 visit the Amazon Route 53 detail page: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/ or
> the Getting Started Guide:
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/Route53/latest/GettingStartedGuide/.
>
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>
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