Domains & DNS · Reviewed 27 Oct 2026

Amazon Route 53

Managed DNS and traffic routing service for highly available applications.

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Amazon Route 53 at a glance

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Amazon Route 53 is a managed Domain Name System (DNS) service that routes end users to internet applications with low-cost, scalable DNS S5. It is used by developers and enterprises to build highly available applications by setting routing policies that automate responses to failures, such as redirecting traffic to alternative Availability Zones or Regions S158. Its practical value lies in simplifying complex routing relationships between records and policies with easy-to-use global DNS features S158.

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Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Amazon Route 53, a managed DNS and traffic routing service from AWS S5.
  • Core purpose: Solves the problem of translating domain names into IP addresses and routing users reliably to applications S5.
  • Intended users: Developers and enterprises needing scalable, highly available application delivery S158.
  • Product scope: A single service within AWS's networking portfolio, focused on DNS, health checks, and domain registration S5 S158.
  • Positioning: Positioned as a low-cost, easy-to-use managed DNS service that helps build highly available applications S5 S158.
  • Claimed distinction: Enables creation, visualization, and scaling of complex routing relationships with easy-to-use global DNS features S158.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
DevelopersBuild highly available applications by using routing policies to automate failover S158.
EnterprisesManage global traffic routing for large-scale applications, as exemplified by McDonald's S158.
Network administratorsCreate and manage DNS records and routing policies for complex network architectures S158.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Global DNS managementCreate, visualize, and scale complex routing relationships between records and policies S158.
Routing policiesSet routing policies to pre-determine and automate responses in case of failure, like redirecting traffic to alternative Availability Zones or Regions S158.
Health checksMonitor endpoint health and route traffic away from unhealthy endpoints (implied by health check pricing) S122.
Domain registrationRegister and manage domain names, with pricing varying by TLD S122.
High availabilityBuild highly available applications by using Route 53's DNS features S158.
10

Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
AWS Management ConsoleWeb interfaceManage DNS records and routing policies through the AWS console S158.
AWS APIsAPIProgrammatically manage Route 53 resources and configurations S11.
AWS SDKsSDKIntegrate Route 53 management into applications using AWS SDKs S11.
AWS Partner NetworkPartner ecosystemAccess partner solutions and services that integrate with Route 53 S1.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Hosted zone (first 25)$0.50 per hosted zone per month, usage-based S122DNS hosting for a domainUp to 10,000 records per zone; $0.10 per zone beyond 25 S122
Standard queries$0.40 per million queries per month, usage-based S122DNS query resolution$0.20 per million above 1 billion a month S122
Latency-based routing queries$0.60 per million queries per month, usage-based S122Latency-based routing$0.30 per million above 1 billion S122
Geolocation and geoproximity queries$0.70 per million queries per month, usage-based S122Geolocation-based routing$0.35 per million above 1 billion S122
Basic health check (AWS endpoint)$0.50 per health check per month S122Health checking of AWS endpoints$0.75 for non-AWS endpoints; optional features $1.00 each S122
Domain registrationVaries by TLD, yearly S122Domain name registrationPrice list linked from the features page S122

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
spr.com223.56 r's, 6 rs
netapp.com227.56 r's, 6 rs
gdt.com1126 r's
learn.microsoft.com1126 rs
comsoltx.com1136 r's
lucid.co1136 rs
dev.to1146 r's
leanix.net1146 rs
wigan.gov.uk1156 r's
interlaced.io1156 rs

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.5%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
featuresUse agent mode for a conversational discovery experience that’s purpose-built for software procurement. Describe your use case, ask questions, compare products side-by-side, and generate customized purchasing proposals. Use the AI-enhanced search to discover solutions for your use case and start evaluating your options on product pages or in agent mode.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresAccess thousands of customer reviews and compare similar products side-by-side to help inform your decision. Request product demos and custom pricing directly from product pages to contact sellers quickly.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresLaunch templated Single Pane of Glass dashboards to get insights and granular visibility into your software procurement. For a high-level overview of your spend and agreements, access the procurement insights dashboard in the AWS Marketplace console.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresAI platforms that can help you simplify data experimentation and formulate deeper insights from disparate sources across your data estate.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions
featuresDS Smith Enhances Procurement Spending Insights Using ML-powered Solution from Exponentia.ai on AWShttps://aws.amazon.com/security/partner-solutions/
featuresWhether you're looking to cut costs, protect your data, reach more customers, or put AI to work, find the right cloud solution for your business in minutes, not months. Start on your own or get matched with a trusted AWS Partner.https://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresWithout a dedicated IT team, every technology decision falls on you. You can't afford downtime, a data breach, or to fall behind on AI. The right cloud solution, set up by the right AWS Partner, handles the complexity—so you can stay focused on growing your business.https://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresPut AI to work—without a big teamhttps://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresWith DeepRacer on AWS you'll learn fundamental concepts, skills, and machine learning (ML) training techniques that power foundation models in some of the most advanced generative AI applications today through the fun of racing autonomous cars.https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
featuresGenerative AI Deployments using Amazon SageMaker JumpStarthttps://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
featuresThis Guidance demonstrates how to deploy a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model provided by Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to create an asynchronous SageMaker endpoint with the ease of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
features](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/generative-ai-deployments-using-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart/)https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
pricingFor AWS Compute and AWS Machine Learning, Savings Plans offer savings over On-Demand in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount (measured in $/hour) of an AWS service or a category of services, for a one- or three-year period.https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
pricingSavings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides significant savings on your AWS usage. This pricing model offers lower prices on AWS Compute and AWS Machine Learning. Savings Plans offer savings over On-Demand in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount (measured in $/hour) of an AWS service or a category of services, for a one- or three-year period.https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
pricingAmazon Bedrock offers select foundation models (FMs) from leading AI providers like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, and Amazon for batch inference at a 50% lower price compared to on-demand inference pricing. To learn more about Batch, click [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/batch-inference.html "batch tier"). Please refer to model list [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/batch-inference-supported.html "model list").https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gap2 first-page appearances across 6 r's, 6 rs

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
GartnerAmazon Web Services Reviews & Ratings / Gartner Peer InsightsGrounded web searchAmazon Web Services is a cloud computing software that offers on-demand computing power, storage, and a broad set of services such as database management, networking, analytics, machine learning, and security. It provides infrastructure resources and platform tools that enable organizations to deploy, manage, and scale applications and workloads in the cloud. The software addresses challenges related to infrastructure scalability, data storage, cost management, disaster recovery, and application
GartnerAmazon Web Services (AWS) Reviews, Ratings & FeaturesGrounded web search### Favorable Review 5.0 April 22, 2026 Product: AWS Lambda #### Highly scalable serverless platform that accelerates delivery, but requires strong governance at scale. ... and IAM. Its particularly powerful for: Event-driven automation Lightweight
G2Using AWS: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting It RightGrounded web searchAWS is a collection of cloud computing services used by organizations and individuals for computations, storage, networking, and content delivery. Users can subscribe to its services, customize them to business needs, and scale them as they grow. AWS has databases in multiple locations. ... The AWS cloud network spans 36 geographic regions. Users can choose to disperse their applications worldwide or bring them closer to their end-users through local servers. ... To get started with AWS, let’s f
G2Amazon Web Services (AWS)Grounded web search### What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)? By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.
G2What Is an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP)?Grounded web searchAWS managed service provider is a certified AWS partner organization that helps businesses plan, build, operate, manage, and optimize their AWS infrastructure, applications ... part of the AWS Partner Network (APN) and have expertise in end-to-end cloud

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipYou pay for requests made against your S3 buckets and objects. S3 request costs are based on the request type, and are charged on the quantity of requests as listed in the table below. When you use the Amazon S3 consolesource
Contact and supportWhat if your CX team could anticipate a customer's needs and resolve them before they even pick up the phone? Agentic AI makes it possible - and with agentic CX designer, business users can build those experiences themsesource
Legal and privacyYes. Amazon Connect Customer keeps data, models, and conversation logic within one AWS trust boundary. HIPAA eligible, with support for PCI DSS, FedRAMP, SOC, ISO 27001, and GDPR. All data encrypted at rest and in transisource
Security and complianceCreate an encrypted network connection to your Amazon VPCs or AWS Transit Gatewayssource
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered1994-11-01—
Domain expires2027-10-31—

Not found on the collected pages: uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Managed Relational Database - Amazon RDS Pricing - Amazon Web ServicesStatus pagePublic service-status information. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Route 53 is a cloud-based service delivered via AWS S5.S5
Platforms and appsAccessible via web console and APIs S11.S11
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Provides SDKs and API reference guides for programmatic access S11.S11
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsSupports building highly available applications with automated failover S158.S158
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
First archived2008-08-19 — web archive
TLS certificateAmazon, valid, expires 2027-03-04
Security headersHSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options
Headers not servedCSP, Referrer-Policy
Server headerServer
Nameserversns-905.awsdns-49.net, ns-106.awsdns-13.com

Not measurable: rdap: HTTP 404; rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 99/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 2
  • Notices: 5

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningTitle length should be reviewed67https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
warningTitle length should be reviewed82https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed195https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed211https://aws.amazon.com/data/resources/data-foundation-for-agentic-ai/
noticePage is marked noindex—https://aws.amazon.com/resources/analyst-reports/gartner/global-mq-ardm-26-magic-quadrant-for-strategic-cloud-platform-services/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed177https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed212https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Cloud Computing Services - Amazon Web Services (AWS)1146482 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/
200AWS Support and Customer Service Contact Info \Amazon Web Services1113639 ms
200AWS Marketplace: Homepage11660508 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
200AWS re:Invent 2026 \The Premier Cloud and AI Conference \Nov 30-Dec 4, Las Vegas11371
200Build & Ship AI Agents: From Pilot to Production – AWS1189165 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/ai/build-ai-agents/
200Get started fast with AWS \Free account and spending controls1207173 ms
200Building a Data Foundation for Agentic AI \AWS Guide1484293 ms
200Gartner \Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services1126240 ms
200AI Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses - AWS1190484 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/artificial-intelligence-small-medium-business/
200What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News188048 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/new/
200AWS Blogs - Cloud news & innovation \Amazon Web Services (AWS)192738 ms
200Why Choose AWS? The World's Leading Cloud \Amazon Web Services1153853 ms
200Getting Started - Cloud Computing Tutorials for Building on AWS1128059 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/
200Cloud Security – Amazon Web Services (AWS)1152543 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/security/
200Cloud Compliance - Amazon Web Services (AWS)1136057 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct47.6%
search21.1%
search organic16.2%
search paid4.9%
social4.1%
social organic3.8%
social paid0.2%
referrals19.6%
paid referrals3.3%
mail2.8%
gen ai1.5%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention any direct competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed documentation on Route 53's API, security certifications, and uptime guarantees. Open questions remain about the full feature set beyond routing policies and health checks, and about the specifics of domain registration pricing.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from aws.amazon.com, including the Route 53 product page, AWS pricing pages, and related networking pages. The evidence catalog includes product descriptions, features, pricing tables, and customer stories. External proof search was enabled but no verification requests were made. Limitations include reliance on marketing pages and lack of in-depth technical documentation.

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