At the end of the year 2010, Amazon has launched a new web service called “Amazon Route 53” which is focused on operating DNS. Addition of this web service in the stack of Amazon web service suite has made hard for the competitors to stand near the Amazon.
Amazon Route 53 is designed to be fast, easy to use, easy to program and cost effective. An easy to use API has made it easy to integrate this service into an existing application and let you offer the UI of your own choice to your users.
What is Amazon Route 53?
The name Amazon Route 53 comes from the fact that port 53 is used to entertain the DNS queries. According to Amazon
“Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications”.
It also provides a programmatic access to work with DNS like adding, modifying or deleting DNS records.
Amazon Route 53 and .Net
Amazon has exposed an XML RESTful web service API for programmatic access. Dealing with the raw RESTful request and response is very much painful and prone to errors. But thanks to the WCF architecture which enables .net developers to deal with this raw data as strongly typed classes and takes care of the complicated coding part itself. But the real art is how to configure and code WCF to lessen the pain and increase the gain.
If you find any better way to code Route 53 or any bug in my code then please let me know.
