How Amazon Route 53 differs in AWS European Sovereign Cloud - AWS European Sovereign Cloud User Guide
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How Amazon Route 53 differs 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.

Service Differences

The following differences apply to Route 53 in AWS European Sovereign Cloud:

  • Registering domain names is not available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. 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.

  • DNSSEC Signing is not available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region.

  • Traffic flow is not available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region.

  • 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 can’t alias to other AWS resources.

  • IP-Based Routing is not available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region.

  • DNS record types TLSA, HTTPS, SVCB, and SSHFP are not available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region.

  • TestDNSAnswer API is not available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region.

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