AWS Cheat Sheet: Route53

This article presents key elements about Route 53.

Alias vs CNAME records

Criteria “cost”:

• CNAME charges for CNAME requests.
• Alias has no billing.

Criteria “pointing”:

• CNAME can point to any hosted DNS record.
• Alias can only point to a CloudFormation distribution, Beanstalk environment, ELB, S3 bucket or a record in the same hosted zone.