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# Route 53

*  DNS is a hierarchical distributed naming system for machines connected to a network, it enables to map a human readable name to a machines ip address.
*  Route 53 is DNS service of AWS. 
* Amazon Route 53 is highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) web service, named after port 53 which is the DNS port. 
* It provides secure routing connection to aws service such as EC2, ELB, S3. Route 53 is not limited to AWS infrastructure you can manage our DNS record through 
* Route 53. Route 53 is global service.

####  Benefit

 1\. Fast, Reliable and cost effective since it uses edge location.

2\. It is 100% available. 

3\. It’s a pay per use.