Amazon Route 53 Now Publishes Query Volume Metrics for Public Hosted Zones

Posted on: Aug 28, 2019

Beginning today, you can now use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to see the number of DNS queries served for each of your Route 53 public hosted zones. With these metrics, you can see at a glance the activity level of each hosted zone to monitor changes in traffic. Using the metric functions that Amazon CloudWatch provides, you can view the number of queries per minute, or any longer time range that Amazon CloudWatch supports.

To learn more, read the Amazon Route 53 product page and developer guide.