The aws-sdk has some helper functions which should generally be used
whenever dereferencing an AWS provided pointer, in case the pointer is
nil, which would otherwise be a panic.
Issue https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/issues/2347
This methods allow us to develop advanced functionality for Route53,
before we add all the functionality to the cross-provider interface.
Use of these methods should be avoided, and adding methods to the
cross-provider interfaces should be preferred.
