Amazon SES & Email Deliverability
Application mail that arrives, with bounces handled before they cost you the account.
From $299 2–4 days
Route 53 DNS Migration
A zone moved with every record accounted for, and the TTLs lowered before the change rather than after.
Price and scope
From $199
Typically $199–$399, fixed in writing before anything starts.
What moves it up
- Live mail on the domain, where a missing record stops delivery rather than a website
- More than about thirty records, or subdomains delegated somewhere else
- A cutover that has to happen inside a specific window
Some of this you can check yourself, right now, for free: DNS Health Check →
What actually goes wrong
The zone gets rebuilt by hand at the new provider and about ninety per cent of it is correct, because the records people remember are the ones that serve web pages. What goes missing is everything that is not a website: the SPF record, the DKIM selector, and the verification TXT for some service that will keep working for weeks and then quietly stop. And because nobody lowered the TTL first, the mistake is cached for a day — so the fix, when it comes, is also invisible for a day.
How I find it
dig +noall +answer @<current-nameserver> <domain> ANY — and every record type separately, because ANY is often refusedA record-by-record diff of the exported zone against what was created at the destinationdig +trace <domain> from outside the network, confirming delegation rather than a cached answerThe TTL on every record lowered and allowed to expire BEFORE the nameserver change, not during it
What you get
- The hosted zone created with every record from the source, diffed rather than retyped
- Mail records verified as sending — SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked against a real message
- TTLs lowered ahead of the switch and restored after it, so a mistake is minutes rather than a day
- Health checks and alias records where they remove a hop or a hardcoded IP
- The old zone left in place until the new one is confirmed authoritative everywhere
Questions
Can DNS be moved without any interruption?
Yes, if the old zone is left serving until the new one is confirmed. Both sets of nameservers answer identically for the overlap, so it does not matter which a resolver reaches. What causes outages is deleting the old zone the same afternoon.
Do I have to move my domain registration too?
No, and usually you should not do both at once. Nameservers and registrar are separate things — you can point a domain registered anywhere at Route 53. Doing both in one change means an outage has two possible causes.
Why does Route 53 cost anything when my registrar does DNS free?
It is about fifty cents a month per zone plus queries, and for most domains that is a rounding error. What you get for it is health checks, alias records that track an AWS resource without a hardcoded IP, and an API — none of which a free registrar DNS panel offers.
How long does the change take to reach everyone?
The nameserver delegation itself is governed by the TLD's TTL, typically a day or two, which is why the old zone stays up. Individual records inside the zone move at whatever TTL you set, which is why they get lowered first.
If this is not quite it
Website / Application Migration to AWS
Moved onto AWS with the cutover rehearsed, the DNS planned, and the old host still standing.
From $459 2–5 days
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