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Same here. This would be a nice little cost saver, except it appears they don't support anycast. As such, it's a nonstarter for us.



"The query resolution functionality of Route 53 is based on anycast, which will route the request automatically to the DNS server that is the closest."

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/12/dns_amazon_route...


Just to clarify: All sources I've read claim it is anycast.




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