Amazon Route 53 in AWS European Sovereign Cloud - AWS European Sovereign Cloud User Guide
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Services or capabilities described in AWS documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region, see the AWS European Sovereign Cloud User Guide.

Amazon Route 53 in AWS European Sovereign Cloud

This topic describes the functionality of Amazon Route 53 in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

How Amazon Route 53 differs

The following differences apply to Route 53:

  • Registering domain names is not available. To delegate domains in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region, you can register them using a third party registrar of your choice or Amazon Route 53 in the US East (N. Virginia) region.

  • Traffic flow is not available.

  • Route 53 alias records are supported as follows:

    • You can alias to another record in the same hosted zone.

    • You can alias to Elastic Load Balancing load balancers.

    • You can alias to a Network Load Balancer.

    • You can alias to a VPC endpoint.

    • You can alias to an Amazon API Gateway endpoint.

    • You can alias to an OpenSearch service.

    • You can alias to an Amazon S3 bucket.

    • You cannot alias to other AWS resources.

  • IP-Based Routing is not available.

  • TestDNSAnswer API is not available.

  • The customer managed key that you use with DNSSEC signing must be in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.

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