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I've been singing the praise of AWS Route53 for a long time, they up and running. I can't believe major multi-million dollar companies (Twitter, GitHub, Soundcloud, Pagerduty) would not run a mix of multiple DNS providers.

Also what is happening is a cascade effect, where a 3rd party being down effects others.



> I've been singing the praise of AWS Route53 for a long time, they up and running.

I'm a fan of Route53, too.

But can we say that it weathered the attack? Or was it just lucky that its systems weren't targeted?


One of the reasons why Route53 is good is because they give different nameservers to each hosted zone - unless you choose to use a branded record-set.

I've seen them be hit by dDos attacks in the past, but never had any significant impact.

(I wrap Route53 and handle storing DNS records in a git repository over at https://dns-api.com/ Adding support for other backends is my current priority to allow more redundancy.)


> Or was it just lucky that its systems weren't targeted?

I was wondering that too




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