Deployed My First Website Using AWS EC2, Route 53, and Elastic IP.
✅ Launched an EC2 instance (Amazon Linux 2) ✅ Installed the httpd web server and hosted my static website ✅ Allocated and associated an Elastic IP to my EC2 instance ✅ Registered my domain koushikcloudfactory.xyz ✅ Configured Route 53 to map my domain to the EC2 instance using an A record It was an exciting hands-on experience combining compute, networking, and DNS routing in the AWS ecosystem! 🌐 📌 Skills practiced:
EC2 configuration HTTP server setup DNS management using Route 53 IP allocation and association
🔍 What is Route 53? Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It translates human-readable domain names (like example.com) into IP addresses (like 192.0.2.1) used by computers to connect to each other. Key Features:
Domain registration DNS routing (A, CNAME, MX, etc.) Health checks Scalable and global
Routing Policies:
Simple Routing – Direct to a single resource. Weighted Routing – Split traffic between multiple resources (e.g., EC2 in two regions). Latency-Based Routing – Send traffic to the lowest-latency region. Failover Routing – Route to a standby if primary is down. Geolocation/GeoProximity – Route based on user location.