Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Amazon Route 53
Optimizing performance for users in China with Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront
China is an important market for global companies. Both enterprises and startups conducting or expanding business globally are looking for ways to tap into the growing user market in China. To help accelerate the customer cloud journey and help them move quickly into the new markets, AWS China (Beijing) Region was launched in 2016, followed […]
Automating DNS infrastructure using Route 53 Resolver endpoints
Introduction DNS name resolution is a fundamental part of all on-premises and cloud networks. For customers with hybrid networks, additional infrastructure and configuration are needed for private DNS resolution to work seamlessly across environments. However, building this type of DNS infrastructure in a multi-account environment is complex. In this post, we show how to automate […]
Accelerating WordPress with CloudFront using the AWS for WordPress Plugin
AWS for WordPress WordPress is a technological marvel in the number of internet sites it powers and the momentum with which developers actively contribute to the community. Recent estimates put WordPress at powering more than 34% of internet sites, and more than 50,000 plugins are available through WordPress.org covering everything from security enhancements to SEO […]
Performing Route 53 health checks on private resources in a VPC with AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch
If you have ever used Amazon Route 53 health checks to monitor resources, you know that monitored resources must have public IP addresses. This is because Route 53 health checkers are public and they can only monitor hosts with IP addresses that are publicly routable on the internet. You may want to monitor your resources […]
Integrating AWS Transit Gateway with AWS PrivateLink and Amazon Route 53 Resolver
An update was made on October 6, 2025: With the availability of Amazon Route 53 Profiles, the below design approach can be greatly simplified and is no longer recommended. Instead we recommend to use of this new capability, as outlined in the blog post “Streamlining multi-VPC DNS management with Amazon Route 53 Profiles and interface […]
Centralized DNS management of hybrid cloud with Amazon Route 53 and AWS Transit Gateway
A successful hybrid networking strategy goes beyond private network connectivity. It often requires dealing with independent internal zones both in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and on-premises. Such a strategy needs Domain Name System (DNS) naming that spans the entire network. Typically, this is managed by providing name resolution services in the same place […]