Working with Amazon Cloud Map namespaces - Amazon Cloud Map
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Working with Amazon Cloud Map namespaces

A namespace is a way to group services for an application. When you create a namespace, you specify how you want to discover service instances that you register with Amazon Cloud Map: using API calls or using DNS queries. You also specify the name that you want your application to use to discover instances.

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