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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 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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