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January 17, 2012
 

AWS Route53 Spending Analytics

You have all your domains nicely imported into Route53 using Ylastic. You have scheduled backups of your zones to the S3 bucket of your choice for DR using Ylastic. You do have those zones backed up, right? You can view an audit trail of all the changes/additions/updates being made to your zones in Ylastic. And now you can view the spending break-down for all of those zones in Ylastic Plus. View the spending for the current month, previous month, curent year or the last year.

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Easily view the cost associated with each of the zones you are hosting in Route53. The chart also displays the total number of queries made for the displayed zones in the chosen time period.

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More integrated cool tools for Route 53 in the pipeline. Manage your AWS cloud, the easy way!

Filed under  //   EC2   analytics   aws   dns   route53   s3   spending   zone  

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June 19, 2011
 

Route53 backup to S3

Ylastic can now backup all your Route53 hosted zones to S3. Each of your hosted zones will be exported to BIND zone file format and saved to the S3 bucket of your choice. Sounds complicated? How about as simple as select the zones to backup, pick a bucket and click a button.

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We love simple, so we extended it to also give you the ability to schedule your Route53 backups on a recurring time period of your choice :-)

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Manage your AWS environment, the easy way!

Filed under  //   EC2   aws   backup   bucket   disaster   recovery   route53   s3   scheduling   task   zone  

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June 1, 2011
 

WRR balancing between EC2 regions with Route53

Route53 introduced a new feature that lets you configure DNS based balancing between EC2 regions. Yes, you heard that right. Between EC2 regions. How does this magic happen? By leveraging a new R53 concept called Weighted Alias resource records, that let you define multiple mappings between your zone apex and your ELBs, as well as assign weights to the mappings.

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This works great, but do keep in mind that this is a round robin scheme and may not be suitable for all kinds of apps. This is a great start, and looking forward to more neat stuff from the route53 team. Enjoy :-)

Filed under  //   WRR   alias   apex   aws   balancing   dns   elb   route53   zone  

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May 26, 2011
 

Mapping zone apex to your ELB with Route53

This blog post is outdated. Route53 has since released new features and Ylastic has integrated them. Please check these posts for the updates:

 

AWS just released a nice feature named zone apex association for mapping the apex of your hosted zone in Route 53 with an elastic load balancer. No more jumping through various hoops and redirects to make queries for a domain such as xanthe.us resolve to your wonderful ELB in EC2. The magic all happens using the concept of Alias Resource Record Sets, which are aliases that point to DNS names in any Route 53 hosted zone. And here's how easy it is to set it up with Ylastic.

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Enjoy :-)

Filed under  //   EC2   apex   aws   dns   elb   route53   zone  

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December 23, 2010
 

Wildcards and Multiple IPs in Route 53

Added a few more goodies to Ylastic for your Route 53 management pleasure.

  • Wildcards for A records: Add wildcards to map all records in a domain to a single IP.

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  • Multiple IP addresses : Add multiple IP addresses to a single A record.

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So, are you driving on Route 53 yet?

Filed under  //   EC2   aws   dns   route53   zone  

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December 20, 2010
 

Batching change requests, search and filtering for Route 53

Three new features in Ylastic to make your Route 53 management even more easier.

  • We now have customers that are importing large zone files with hundreds of resource records into Route 53. Ylastic added the ability to batch your changes so you can import even large zone files without running into the Route 53 limitation of 100 changes at a time. All you have to do is pick a zone file to import, and we will take care of all the chunkng and batching for the changes on our end. 
  • Have lots of resource records in your zones, and feeling a bit overwhelmed with finding what you need? We have the fix for you. Search and filter through your records easily. Type a string to match and off you go.
  • Ability to delete all resource records from a zone easily. This will only delete the records that you added or imported, and will not remove the Route 53 provided NS and SOA records. Oh yeah, we handle the batching of change requests, even if you are deleting more than 100 records.

Easy, peasy DNS management :-)

Filed under  //   EC2   aws   dns   import   route53   zone  

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