Route 53 pricing
Route 53 is priced for pay per use DNS service. It has components such as hosted zones, traffic flow and queries. AWS has a staggering price for the number of hosted zones and queries, with a lesser unit price beyond a certain usage. For details, check https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/.
Getting ready
You need to decide the amount of traffic flow, the hosted zones and the health check to be used for Route 53.
How to do it...
- Open a new cost calculator if you want to have the cost for only Route 53 related components or use the same cost calculator used for earlier recipes. Choose
Amazon Route 53
from the left menu bar:

AWS cost calculator for Route 53
- Add the hosted zones, the traffic flow and type and the number of queries. You can see the estimated bill on the other tab:

Route 53 cost for Hosted zone components
- Add DNS failover details under
DNS Failover Health Checks for endpoints
:

Route 53 cost for Hosted zone components and Failover health check
- Browse to the
Estimate of...