What is Amazon Route 53?
Amazon Route 53 is the DNS service of Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched in December 2010. Customers create a hosted zone for a domain and Route 53 answers its DNS queries from AWS’s global network of DNS servers. Amazon also registers domains through its own ICANN-accredited registrar, Amazon Registrar, Inc.
- What it is
- DNS provider, Domain registrar
- Run by
- Amazon Web Services
- Launched
- December 2010
- ICANN accreditation
- Yes, Amazon Registrar, Inc., IANA ID 468
- Website
- aws.amazon.com/route53/
Why do domains use Route 53?
Mostly because their websites and applications run on AWS, and Route 53 can point names at AWS resources directly. A domain uses Route 53 when its nameservers point to the hosted zone, wherever the domain is registered.
Amazon Route 53 in axath Analytics
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Last reviewed October 9, 2026.