A company needs a highly available DNS service that translates domain names (such as example.com) to their corresponding IP addresses and routes user requests to the appropriate resources. Which service meets this requirement?

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Explanation

Question Overview

A question about selecting the DNS service that translates domain names to IP addresses.

Requirements to satisfy
  • 1「domain names」Names such as example.com
  • 2「translates」Name resolution = DNS
  • 3「DNS service」The role of Route 53
Per-option explanation
AIncorrect

Amazon CloudFront

This is incorrect. CloudFront is a CDN service that caches and delivers content from edge locations.

It is not a DNS service that translates domain names to IP addresses.

BIncorrect

Amazon VPC

This is incorrect. Amazon VPC is a service that provides a virtual network.

It is not a DNS service that translates domain names to IP addresses.

CCorrect

Amazon Route 53

This is correct. Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable DNS service. It translates domain names to IP addresses and routes users to the appropriate resources using routing policies such as latency-based and weighted routing, as well as health check-based failover. It also supports domain registration.

DIncorrect

Amazon EBS

This is incorrect. Amazon EBS is a block storage service attached to EC2 instances.

It is not a DNS service that translates domain names to IP addresses.

Key Takeaway

'Translates domain names to IP addresses' and 'DNS' both point to Amazon Route 53 (also handles routing policies, health checks, and domain registration). Distinguish from CloudFront (content delivery) and ELB (load balancing).

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