DNS · facts read November 6, 2026
Amazon Route 53
AWS's DNS service with health checks and routing policies. The natural choice inside AWS, with latency and geo routing.
- Free plan
- None
- Paid from
- $0.50 per hosted zone per month (first 25), plus $0.40 per million standard queries.
- Monthly cost at 1,000 users
- $1/month $0.50 per hosted zone; queries at this volume cost cents.
- Free plan allows commercial use
- Not stated
- Open source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
Source: Amazon Route 53 pricing, read November 6, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor's page before you commit.
Best for
- Infrastructure on AWS
- Health-checked failover and geo routing
Watch out for
- No free tier: billed per hosted zone and per query.
How Cuely scores Amazon Route 53
The published scores, from −3 to +3, that decide when Cuely picks it. Method
- +1background jobs or long-running servers. Health-checked failover for always-on services.
- −1keep costs as low as possible. No free tier.
Amazon Route 53 alternatives
Recipes with Amazon Route 53
- B2B SaaS with auth, billing and email · an alternative