Working with Route53 and domain registration and have a cost question

Question

Right now I am working on studying for the Solutions Architect Associate exam and working on Route 53 and I was about to create a domain and noticed that Amazon immediately creates a hosted zone for it which does incur costs. If I do not create an additional EC2 instances, ENIs and don't tie anything into this zone am I correct to assume that my monthly costs would be extremely low? I am trying to get hands on training with AWS with the goal of moving towards achieving my certification and possibly moving into consulting as a Cloud Engineer. I just want to avoid incurring high costs while doing it.

Roland · Accepted Answer

Hello,

In your described case, AWS will charge you for the following components:

1. **Domain Registration:** When you register a domain through Route 53, you will be charged for the domain. Pricing for domain names varies by TLD.

2. **Hosted Zone:** Route 53 automatically creates a hosted zone for each domain you register. The hosted zone itself has a cost associated with it:

* $0.50 per hosted zone per month for the first 25 hosted zones
* $0.10 per hosted zone per month for additional hosted zones

> A hosted zone includes up to 10,000 records. For each record greater than 10,000 per hosted zone, you will be charged $0.0015 per month.

3. **DNS Queries:** *Standard Queries*  cost $0.40 per million queries (first 1 billion queries per month)

For more details, check the AWS Route 53 pricing page: [https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/](https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/)

Please note that you can take advantage of the AWS Free Tier, which provides free usage for some AWS services. See also: [https://aws.amazon.com/free/](https://aws.amazon.com/free/)

If you have any questions, about your AWS bills, please reach out to AWS Support (billing questions are part of  our Basic support plan).

Working with Route53 and domain registration and have a cost question

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