How much does AWS Route 53 cost?
Route 53 costs $0.50 per hosted zone per month, $0.40 per million DNS queries, and $0.50 per health check per month. For a small app with one domain, that's about $2/month. For 10 domains, about $20/month.
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More FAQs in AWS Route 53 vs Cloudflare DNS Which DNS Provider for Your Node.js App?
Use Cloudflare for free DNS, CDN, DDoS protection, and a simple UI. Use Route 53 if your app is deeply integrated with AWS, you need advanced routing (latency, geolocation), health checks, or you use Terraform. For most Node.js developers, Cloudflare is the better choice.
Cloudflare DNS is completely free. No cost for DNS hosting, DNS queries, CDN (basic), DDoS protection, or SSL. Advanced features like WAF, Workers, and Load Balancing are paid. For most projects, the free plan is sufficient.
You can only use one DNS provider at a time (nameservers point to one provider). However, you can use Route 53 for DNS and Cloudflare for CDN by setting up Cloudflare as a CNAME target. Or use Cloudflare for DNS and AWS for everything else (EC2, S3, etc.).
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