Glossary term
What is DNS?
In Apex Flow Academy, "DNS" means: The internet's phone book, which turns a name such as example.com into the numeric address of a server. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup and Build and Publish a Business Website With AI. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is DNS?
The internet's phone book, which turns a name such as example.com into the numeric address of a server. (From AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does DNS mean in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup?
The internet's phone book, which turns a name such as example.com into the numeric address of a server.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
What does DNS mean in Build and Publish a Business Website With AI?
The internet's address book. It tells browsers which computer holds your website when someone types your domain.
Where is DNS taught?
DNS is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup and Build and Publish a Business Website With AI.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live SetupBuild and Publish a Business Website With AI
Which lessons cover DNS?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 5.4: The path of a request: DNS, content delivery, load balancing and scaling
- Build and Publish a Business Website With AI, lesson 6.2: Buy and Connect Your Domain
Which terms are related to DNS?
Next to DNS in the course glossaries: Security group, Content delivery network (CDN), Subnet, Load balancer, VPC, Auto Scaling, Key-value database, CloudWatch, Registrar and DNS record.
Security groupContent delivery network (CDN)SubnetLoad balancerVPCAuto ScalingKey-value databaseCloudWatchRegistrarDNS record
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn DNS?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.
- Build and Publish a Business Website With AI: No coding, design or marketing experience needed.