Amazon introduces DNS service.
Amazon has just launched DNS service, which they’ve called Route 53 (why not Amazon Elastic DNS?). I find it quite funny as day a before I’ve said “I wished Amazon have done their DNS”. It seems to be still in beta, but is publicly active and ready to test. Few things I’ve noticed so far:
- They provide nice API for the whole thing, making it easy to integrate and automate management
- Multiple geographic locations, providing redundancy and reliability, pretty standard with them. They actually list more locations than Dynect.
- They don’t seem to do geo based anycast. Definitely a minus.
- Flexible on TTL settings, making it easier moving domains around as opposed to some cheap and bad providers.
- Allows round robin DNS load balancing.
They charge $1.00 per zone/month + additional $0.50 per million of queries (up to first billion, then it’s cheaper). Product seems to be competitive to Custom DynDNS and comes at lower price as well. Little table for comparison (for a single domain, as from what it seems queries are charged per account not per domain).
| Amazon | DynDNS | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost of domain per year (minimum amount of queries) |
($1.00 + $0.50) * 12 = $18.00 | $29.95 |
| Queries in price | 1.000.000 | 600.000 |
| Geographic locations | 16 | 5 |
| Limit on zone entries | nothing mentioned | 75 |
| LOC record | no | yes |
| SOA record | yes | no |
| SPF record | yes | no |
Generally it seems to be superior for less money and quite more scalable. I’m waiting for AWS to become a registrar 
Considering their pace of rolling out new services it shouldn’t be long.
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