[derefr]

Wasn't there just an AWS announcement yesterday about the ability to register VPC-private DNS records in Route 53? It screamed "SkyDNS competitor" to me but I couldn't figure out what Amazon wanted such a thing for. Makes sense now.

[donavanm]

Route 53 launched private (vpc) dns last week. Its actually a common pattern to manage ec2 instances via dns records. Many people had built this on top of the public route53 offering, see zonify from airbnb as an example. Private dns improves on that model as the vpc instances never have to communicate with the public internet now.