A county wants global DNS routing for its website hostname and assumes Amazon Route 53 will also cache and serve the site's static HTML like a CDN. Which clarification is correct?
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Short Explanation
DNS and a CDN are different tools in the toolbox. Route 53 answers "where is this name?" with routing smarts; CloudFront parks copies of your content at edge locations so users download faster. Want name resolution? Route 53. Want cached content delivery? CloudFront.
Full Explanation
Amazon Route 53 is AWS's DNS and domain routing service; it answers name queries and can apply routing policies, health checks, and related DNS features. Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network that caches and serves content from edge locations to reduce latency and origin load. Confusing DNS with CDN caching leads to the wrong architecture: you still need CloudFront (or similar) when the goal is edge content delivery, and Route 53 when the goal is authoritative DNS and traffic routing.