I am using amazon lightsail for hosting my website. I would like to use simple email service for my website. SES have different price model for an application hosted on ec-2. Application hosted on lightsail falls under ec-2 pricing category?
Application hosted on lightsail falls under ec-2 pricing category?
NO.
From https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=806414󄸎:
We checked with the SES team and unfortunately, Lightsail does not
qualify for this free tier.
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I have a VM hosted on google running a wordpress website and the domain I own is on AWS. I purchased this domain on AWS a while back so it is under AWS ownership. I was wondering if there is a way to have the DNS resolve to my website that is on Google cloud.
I have tried using each cloud providers name servers on each cloud but that hasn't worked. Is there anything i can do with SOA.
I have purchased a domain from godaddy provider and I launched an application with AWS route 53 service.
My questions:
Where to get a SSL certificate? GoDaddy or AWS
How to setup SSL certificate?
Please tell me
This depends upon your use case or where are you running your application like ECS or EC2 or some static website over s3?
If you are using load balancer on the top of your application then the certificate from AWS is best. you don't need to worry about renewal etc and any other configuration just create load balancer with AWS Certificate Manager.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-create-https-ssl-load-balancer.html
CloudFront:
Here is the link how you can configure with CloudFront.
If you to configure directly on your EC2 instance then it's not possible.
Although you install your website on an Amazon EC2 instance, you
cannot directly deploy an ACM Certificate on that instance source AWS Doc
Here is the list on which you can AWS certificate.
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon API Gateway
AWS CloudFormation
Services Integrated with AWS Certificate Manager
You mention that you launched application with Route53 so want to clear one thing
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name
System (DNS) web service.
So Route 53 in DNS and it can be configured with
Amazon Route 53 effectively connects user requests to infrastructure
running in AWS – such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing
load balancers, or Amazon S3 buckets – and can also be used to route
users to infrastructure outside of AWS.
Amazon Route 53
As we are using AWS certificate and we feel good with AWS services, far better than any other service provider in our case.
Let me know if you need further details.
I have an ec2 instance under the free tier of aws and I am using route 53 hosting with it. In my bills, I am seeing charges for DNS-queries. But I don't get these on other servers I own on other accounts. Is it because I have configured it wrong? Please help
If you are using an A-record, then there is a charge ($0.40 per million queries).
However, as per the Route 53 pricing page:
Queries to Alias records that are mapped to Elastic Load Balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments, and Amazon S3 website buckets are free.
To use this, select "Alias = Yes" and point to one of those resources. (But it appears an EC2 instance is not one of them, unless fronted by a Load Balancer.)
Worst case... pay the 40c!
I'm currently moving all of my hosting from a cheap shared hosting provider over to Amazon LightSail. Normally, when sending work over to clients for approval, I create a subdomain through my hosting provider's c-panel and upload the required files through FTP.
I am at a loss when it comes to setting up a subdomain through AWS Lightsail though. I've created a static IP and I've created the A record for the subdomain, but where do I put the directory that the files I want my client review for that subdomain sit and what IP address do I need to point the subdomain at?
AWS LightSail is different from shared hosting providers, where AWS provides Virtual Private Servers(VPS) with its own IP.
Generally VPS is for a single deployment of an application(e.g Single Wordpress Deployment per VPS). So it is recommended to get multiple VPS for your deployments unless your applications are really light weight and gets less traffic.
There is also a limit where you gets 2 VPS servers per AWS account by default. If you need more VPS, either you can send a support request to Amazon and increase the limit or use multiple AWS accounts (If you own the AWS accounts, you can setup consolidated billing)
In DNS setup, since its single application per VPS, you need to create a A record for each subdomain.
I had faced the same problem. I had used up 2 Lightsail instances per account as the other answer mentioned. I had no way to setup subdomain for another application I hosted on Elastic Beanstalk.
Solution is - Use Route53 & Create Hosted Zone there. Instead of creating DNS Zone in Lightsail. Then point A record to the Static IP of Lightsail.
Hope this solves your problem.
I have worked with several godaddy domains in the past. But, for the new project infrastructure I wish to setup, I am planning on registering domain names from the new Amazon's Route 53 - Domain Registration.
My question is do I also need to pay for their DNS Service?
In the past I used to configure hosted zones (CNAME records) from the GoDaddy Console, but never payed anything extra.
How will relying on Amazon effect me in terms of cost and maintenance?
Update: Alright, looks like Amazon doesn't charge for DNS queries routed to their own internal services. Refer here: Route 53 Docs - DNS Service
If somebody is using Amazon Route 53 - Domain Name and their DNS, please let me know if/how you got charged for using their DNS Service.
From the documentation, notice the final step listed in registering a domain, when you want to use an external DNS hosting provider:
(Optional) Delete the hosted zone that Amazon Route 53 created automatically when you registered your domain. This prevents you from being charged for a hosted zone that you aren't using. (emphasis added)
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-register.html
Regarding other providers' pricing practices:
In the past I used to configure hosted zones (CNAME records) from the GoDaddy Console, but never payed anything extra.
That's fine, but you're looking at this situation upside-down. The two services -- domain registration and DNS hosting -- are separate services, but GoDaddy and many other registrars don't give you an option not to pay for DNS hosting, even if you don't use it -- it's built into their domain registration pricing. AWS tends to unbundle service components so that you only pay for the components you use.
If you are hosting services in AWS, using S3, CloudFront, or Elastic Load Balancer, you will find that Route 53's DNS hosting is the preferable option, because of the way resource records work at the apex of a domain due to the design of DNS itself. Route 53 is integrated with the other services to allow failover and redundant DNS configuration in a way that can't be accomplished with most external DNS providers.
Yes, you can use third party DNS service with domains registered in Route53 (you just have to add appropriate Name Servers)
About the pricing, it is all explained in detail here. Keep in mind that although queries to Alias records that are mapped to Elastic Load Balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments, and Amazon S3 website buckets are free, that does bot apply to other AWS resources, including Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS databases.
Also you will be charged fixed monthly amount for each hosted zone.