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What is Amazon Route 53 and what is its primary purpose?

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Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System, or DNS, web service that translates human friendly domain names such as example.com into the numeric IP addresses computers use to identify each other, while also offering domain registration and health checking capabilities all within a single integrated service.
aws route53 create-hosted-zone --name example.com --caller-reference 2026-09-07-01
Real-world example A company registers its domain name directly through Route 53 and configures DNS records so that visitors typing its website address are correctly routed to the servers hosting its application.

Common follow-ups: What is a hosted zone in Route 53?;How does Route 53 pricing work for domain registration versus DNS queries?

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