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Amazon Route 53 in Amazon Web Services in China - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China
Region availabilityHow Route 53 differsDocumentation
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon Route 53 in Amazon Web Services in China

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

Region availability

Amazon Route 53 is available in the following regions in China:

  • Beijing Region

  • Ningxia Region

How Route 53 differs

The following differences apply to Amazon Route 53:

  • You can’t use Route 53 to register domains. However, you can create a hosted zone in one of the China Regions, and associate the name servers for that hosted zone with a domain that you registered using a global account or that you registered with another domain registrar.

  • The TestDNSAnswer API is not available.

  • Traffic flow is not available.

  • You can’t create alias records that route traffic to Amazon resources outside the China Regions.

  • When creating alias records programmatically and routing traffic to an Amazon CloudFront distribution, use the following hosted zone ID: Z3RFFRIM2A3IF5.

  • You can add an alias record to an Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environment in Ningxia Region only by using the ChangeResourceRecordSets API, but not on the console. When you programmatically create an alias record to an Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, use the following hosted zone ID: ZB5H67MZE5736.

  • Recursive DNS resolvers can only use use IPv4 transport to submit DNS queries to Amazon Route 53.

  • Route 53 DNSSEC signing is not available in China.

  • Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is supported in China with the following differences:

    • You can use Amazon Resource Access Manager to share DNS Firewall rule groups with Amazon Web Services accounts.

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