> Route 53 is arguably one of the more obviously named AWS offerings.
Er, then please humor my ignorance: What is it named for? Because the name means nothing to me, and even some light searching just turns up an actual highway and I still don't see what it would have to do with DNS.
Edit: Okay, I do feel a bit foolish for forgetting that DNS is traditionally port 53, so now half of the name makes sense to me. The other half still seems like a more or less random choice to me.
Route 53 sounds like a service to forward DNS requests to the right DNS server (misapplying L2 naming of "route" for what sounds like proxying). Routing DNS does not sound like an authoritative DNS server.
What next, a HTTP server named Route 80 (or Route 443)?
