Moving DNS hosting from external to AWS Route53

Question

We have an App hosted on AWS and our DNS is hosted at a different provider (cPanel). We are currently evaluating to move DNS hosting and homepage hosting from cPanel to AWS Route53 in order to make DNS management more easy. We are struggling with the cost estimations. We pay annually 97€ for hosting of two main domains + approx. 5 sub domains including the hosting of our homepage using WordPress at cPanel right now and I need to understand the costs for moving to AWS Route53. Any help on getting at least an idea of the costs is highly appreciated.

Best Regards, falk von Rönn

Best Regards,
falk von Rönn

Answer

At a very high level pricing of many AWS services are categorised in 2 (per hour charges and usage charge)

For example if you move 2 public domains acme.com and example.com to AWS R53, you will create 2 public hosted zones.
2 public hosted will be charged @ 0.50/hosted zone/month i.e. per year you will pay 2*0.5*12=12$
A hosted zone includes 10,000 records.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-routing-traffic-to-resources.html

Plus you will also be charged for the number of times someone queries your record. 
$0.40 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month
$0.20 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month

i hope this clarifies some of your doubts, if you are still interested to learn more open a support case or get in touch with your AWS account team.

Answer

You can review AWS Pricing here and use the calculator to estimate the cost you will incur based on you usage.
https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

Moving DNS hosting from external to AWS Route53

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