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Route 53

General

DNS

Amazon Route 53 is a reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications.

For my personal domains, I use it to route website traffic to AWS and e-mail traffic to eUKhost.

Aliases

Route 53 provides aliases but in other DNS servers it may be necessary to use CNAME records:

E-mail

MX Records

How can you get Route 53 to point at a mail server which is not on AWS?

eUKhost

I am considering eUKhost for my e-mail and AWS for my webservers: