Amazon Route 53 Pricing

Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Estimate your monthly bill using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.

Hosted Zones

$0.50 per hosted zone / month for the first 25 hosted zones
$0.10 per hosted zone / month for additional hosted zones

The monthly hosted zone prices listed above are not prorated for partial months. A hosted zone is charged upon set-up and on the first day of each subsequent month. To allow testing, a hosted zone that is deleted within 12 hours of creation is not charged; however, any queries on that zone will be charged at the rates below.

Need more than 100 hosted zones? Please contact us.

Standard Queries

$0.500 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month
$0.250 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month

Latency Based Routing Queries

$0.750 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month
$0.375 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month

The query prices listed above are prorated; for instance, a hosted zone with 100,000 standard queries would be charged $0.050 and a hosted zone with 100,000 Latency Based Routing queries would be charged $0.075.

Queries to Alias records that are mapped to Elastic Load Balancers and Amazon S3 website buckets are free. These queries are listed as “Intra-AWS-DNS-Queries” on the Amazon Route 53 usage report.

DNS Failover Health Checks

Get Started With DNS Failover For Free*
As an introductory offer, new and existing customers receive health checks of up to 50 AWS endpoints** for free until July 31, 2013. Health checks of endpoints outside of AWS are billed at $0.75 per health check per month.

$0.50 per health check / month for endpoints within AWS
$0.75 per health check / month for endpoints outside of AWS

The monthly health check prices listed above are prorated for partial months.

Need more than 50 health checks? Please contact us.

* From now until July 31, 2013, new and existing customers can get started with DNS Failover by receiving free health checks for up to 50 AWS endpoints. The free offer of 50 health checks (the “Offer”) is subject to the AWS Customer Agreement and is a Special Pricing Program under the AWS Customer Agreement. The Offer only applies to endpoints located within AWS. You also will be charged AWS’s standard rates for any use that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer. Unused usage amounts remaining at the end of the Offer term do not roll over. When calculating your use of AWS services under the Offer, we will aggregate your use across all AWS regions.

** An "AWS endpoint" is defined as a resource running within AWS, for example an Amazon EC2 instance. Health checks of Amazon S3 website bucket endpoints are provisioned automatically by AWS. You are not billed for health checks of S3 website bucket endpoints. S3 website bucket endpoints will remain free even after July 31, 2013.

The prices above are exclusive of applicable taxes, fees, or similar governmental charges, if any exist, except as otherwise noted.