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On hindsight, yesterday’s “Route 53” announcement was not completely unexpected. Amazon is an IAAS provider and its in their own interest to automate infrastructure as much as possible. After tackling monitoring and cloudfront features, DNS was one of the more obvious targets for improvement. So when I was trying to pick a challenge for this morning’s hackathon , I picked one around “Amazon Route 53”  service. At the end of the day I had a almost functional public dynamic DNS service using “Route 53” as the DNS service and Twitter’s oauth service for authentication. The final hack is up here http://www.XXXXXXX.com/. You are most welcome to play with it and/or use it. After the initial creation of user in the system (with a little help from twitter’s oauth), the end user is free to use the browser based web application or  lynx or curl based REST interface to add/create/update host records. The current version only supports “A” records, but it would be expa