Amazon Route 53
AWS's managed authoritative DNS service, billed per hosted zone and per query with no plan fee.
Most at home in AWS accounts, where alias queries to resources such as ELB, CloudFront and S3 are free. Otherwise the bill is per hosted zone ($0.50/month for the first 25, $0.10 after) plus $0.40 per million standard queries, with latency-based routing at $0.60/M and geolocation at $0.70/M. There is no plan fee, and for EU residency it runs in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud partition in Germany with dedicated name servers.
- Headquarters
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States (parent: Amazon)
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Open source
- No
- Website
- aws.amazon.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Zone / month | 1M DNS queries |
|---|---|
| $0.5 | $0.4 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included zones
- 0
- Zone / month
- $0.5
- Included queries / month (millions)
- 0
- 1M DNS queries
- $0.4
$0.50/hosted zone/month for the first 25 zones, $0.10/zone after that. Standard queries $0.40/M for the first 1B/month, $0.20/M above. Latency-based routing $0.60/M, geolocation/geoproximity $0.70/M. Alias queries to AWS resources (ELB, CloudFront, API Gateway, S3, etc.) are free. EU residency: Route 53 is available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) partition with dedicated name servers; the standard commercial Route 53 is a global service. GDPR DPA via the AWS DPA.
Managed alternatives
At 50 hosted zones, 1B queries / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Amazon Route 53: $5,100/yr estimated.
- Bunny DNS: $0/yr estimated 路 $5,100/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Cloudflare DNS: $0/yr estimated 路 $5,100/yr bill differencePublished rates
- deSEC: $0/yr estimated 路 $5,100/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Hetzner DNS: $0/yr estimated 路 $5,100/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Gcore Managed DNS: $2,647/yr estimated 路 $2,453/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you鈥檇 need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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