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Amazon Route 53 pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Amazon Route 53 (aws.amazon.com) is a domain, DNS or SSL provider. Pay-as-you-go: domains are priced per TLD per year, while DNS is billed per public hosted zone per month plus per million standard queries.. No free plan.

What Amazon Route 53 costs

  • 1 .com domain: $1.33/mo (Standard .com renewal $16.00 a year from July 1, 2026, divided by 12 = $1.33 a month (16/12 = 1.3333). Privacy protection is free (AWS FAQ). No ICANN fee is stated, so none is added.)
  • DNS, 5 domains: $4.50/mo (5 public hosted zones x $0.50 = $2.50, plus 5,000,000 standard queries at $0.40 per million (first 1 billion tier) = $2.00. Total $4.50 a month.)
  • 1 SSL certificate: no public price (Route 53 does not sell TLS certificates. AWS Certificate Manager is a separate product, so it does not count.)

Plan compared: Pay-as-you-go .com standard renewal ($16 a year). Prices are USD per month: the headline is one .com domain at its yearly renewal price (not the first-year promo), with contact privacy and any required account plan, divided by 12. We also price managed DNS for 5 domains registered elsewhere at 5 million queries a month and one single-domain SSL certificate for a year divided by 12; a product that does not do a job shows no price for it.

What Amazon Route 53 does

Core: DNS hosting, Anycast DNS with SLA, Traffic steering & failover, API & infrastructure as code.

Important: Domain registration, Free automated SSL (partly), Team access & roles.

Also has: Broad TLD coverage, Free WHOIS privacy (partly), Transparent renewal pricing (partly), Domain security locks (partly), DNSSEC, Wildcard & multi-domain certs, Certificate lifecycle management (partly), Mobile app (partly).

Amazon Route 53 price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to Amazon Route 53

At 1 .com domain at renewal, Amazon Route 53 costs $1.33/mo. 1 domain, DNS or SSL provider costs less:

  • Cloudflare Registrar: $0.87/mo (Standard .com renewal at Cloudflare's at-cost price of $10.46/yr (tracker figure), with WHOIS redaction free.), covers 88% of Amazon Route 53; missing or partial: Anycast DNS with SLA (partly), API & infrastructure as code (partly)

Amazon Route 53 alternatives: 4 domain, DNS or SSL providers compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Amazon Route 53

  • Vercel (Hosting): covers 63% of Amazon Route 53; missing or partial: DNS hosting (partly), Anycast DNS with SLA (partly), Traffic steering & failover, Team access & roles (partly), DNSSEC
  • Hostinger (Web & WordPress hosting): covers 50% of Amazon Route 53; missing or partial: DNS hosting (partly), Anycast DNS with SLA, Traffic steering & failover, API & infrastructure as code (partly), Team access & roles (partly)

Every change we logged

  • Jul 1, 2026 · Price increase: From July 1, 2026, .com registration, renewal and transfer rose from $15 to $16 a year (+6.7%), or $1.25 to $1.33 a month at the ref point. AWS's price list is the primary source, and a 2026 third-party analysis matches it.
  • Apr 8, 2024 · Price increase: From April 8, 2024, .com registration and renewal rose from $13 to $14 a year (+7.7%), or $1.08 to $1.17 a month at the ref point. The source is a third-party article quoting AWS's March 2024 price list.

Sources

Pricing page: aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from AWS's Route 53 pricing page and its domain price list PDF (July 1, 2026 table), with privacy from the AWS FAQ. Some text-layer rows in the PDF do not match its rendered table, so .com values come from the rendered table, corroborated by a third-party 2026 analysis; the 2024 change rests on a third-party blog quoting AWS's March 2024 list.