Amazon Route 53 Launches Private DNS and Health Checks in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Posted on: May 29, 2019

You can now use Amazon Route 53 private Domain Name System (DNS) and health checks for public endpoints in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. This AWS Region is designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud DNS web service. With this launch, you can use Amazon Route 53 private DNS and configure DNS health checks to route traffic to healthy endpoints or to monitor the health of your applications in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

You can learn more about Amazon Route 53 on the product page and on the documentation page.

Learn about the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions here.