What is Amazon Route 53? [closed]

Question

I stumbled upon Amazon Route53. I wasnt sure what its purpose was.

I currently have a domain name registered. If I did use that service, would I point my domain to Route53, to redirect it to my server? If so, why not have my domain name point directly to my server? Maybe I am missing the point.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Amazon route 53 is nothing but DNS servers. Route 53 DNS have some additional features which facilitate integration with other EC2 services.

If you wish to use it, you define your domain to use Route 53 nameservers instead of registrar or some 3-rd party nameservers.