Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS

Re:Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS by eli on Monday December 06, 2010 @09:22AM (#1975205)

Yup, same here. DME additional query & overage fees are killing me.

Has anyone tried this out though? My impression is that R53 is exclusively API driven, at least for now. I'd kinda like to have a web interface to fall back on.

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Re:Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS by MrRumblefish on Monday December 06, 2010 @09:48AM (#1975286)

Yes I've set one domain up and atm it's via API only.

They do provide scripts that take care of most of the work but ther is still more involved than a web front end.

For example you make changes in batches of records, and they can be create or delete. So to change an IP in an A record you make an XML document with both a delete request and a create request with the new value then poll the API for a sat us of in-sync.

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Re:Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS by smountcastle on Monday December 06, 2010 @09:49AM (#1975294)

Based on the web interfaces available for the other AWS services, I'm sure it won't be long before someone cooks up a simple CRUD web front-end.

EDIT: I forgot to ask, what kind of overages are you seeing? With Route 53 you'll be charged $501/month if your zone gets 1B queries.

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Re:Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS by eli on Monday December 06, 2010 @11:00AM (#1975550)

The pricing is a little complicated and I think there are volume discounts, but I believe I'm paying something like $2/million in advance and $6/million if I go over plan.

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