Why did no one tell me you’re not required to use Route 53 for DNS if you’re hosting a website on S3/CloudFront‽
I have quite a few websites. They’re small, static and don’t get much traffic. So S3’s pay-as-you-go pricing works well for me. It costs me a fraction of a dollar a month.
Or it would, if it wasn’t for Route 53, which charges a flat $0.50/mo for every single domain, no matter how much traffic it gets. It accounts for ~95% of my AWS bill.
Well, I randomly discovered that you can use Cloudflare for DNS (I thought if you were using S3/CloudFront you had to remain in the AWS ecosystem for the DNS).
I can’t wait to start transferring my sites DNS to Cloudflare tomorrow.