<p>Creates a service. This action defines the configuration for the following entities:</p> <ul> <li> <p>For public and private DNS namespaces, one of the following combinations of DNS records in Amazon Route 53:</p> <ul> <li> <p> <code>A</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>AAAA</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>A</code> and <code>AAAA</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>SRV</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>CNAME</code> </p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Optionally, a health check</p> </li> </ul> <p>After you create the service, you can submit a <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud-map/latest/api/API_RegisterInstance.html">RegisterInstance</a> request, and Cloud Map uses the values in the configuration to create the specified entities.</p> <p>For the current quota on the number of instances that you can register using the same namespace and using the same service, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud-map/latest/dg/cloud-map-limits.html">Cloud Map quotas</a> in the <i>Cloud Map Developer Guide</i>.</p>

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