Questions tagged [amazon-route53]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.

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Setting up CloudFront [Custom Origin] for EC2 instance

I have been checking things up & down on Google & AWS Documentation but can't seem to nail this one. I have an EC2 instance setup with a domain being served via a virtual host and I need to use a CDN for the contents on the site, mainly images ie…
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Route 53 as backup to Cloudflare DNS

I use cloudflare as my main DNS provider right now but am looking to add route 53 as another provider/backup in case one or the other goes down. (DYN did this last year and it caused a headache with just one provider) It is my understanding that I…
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Route 53 health checking an FTP server

We would like to use a TCP health check on port 21 for Route 53 failover of a pair of FTP servers running on EC2 instances with Elastic IPs. The problem is that we have the FTP servers in a security group that only allows connections from a small…
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Heroku SSL redirect to www.example.com with AWS Route 53 and Cloudfront

Current Situation example.com == examplecom and so on because of spam I've a Domain examplecom on GoDaddy and a SSL cert for it. The real application is hosted on Heroku at exampleherokuappcom. I also uploaded the SSL cert on heroku via this…
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Resolving route53 private hosted zone cnames internally

We have a DNS server outside of AWS, inside we have route53 with some private hosted zones. I want cnames on the private hosted zones to be available internally (when you access them inside the office). Due to my limited experience with DNS, I'm not…
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Configure reverse DNS on AWS Route53, should I use public or private ip?

Ive noticed that emails send from my SMTP server ends up in spam folder because of a missing reverse DNS. The server is hosted on AWS, so is its domain and DNS (Route53). In the official guide for reverse DNS configuration, Amazon explains the…
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AWS private hosted zone setup

I'm trying to set up a pair of VPC peers on Amazon. One of the VPCs has been in use for some time, and the other is a new VPC I've just set up. As part of this effort, I've associated an existing Route 53 Private Hosted Zone with the new VPC. But…
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How do I get all IPs that a single Amazon Route 53 A Record entry is pointing to?

I am using Amazon's Route 53 to set up zones for a domain. I have multiple A Records set up as an Alias to a bunch of targets. These aliases have a Weighted routing policy. They look something as follows: A foo.mydomain.com ALIAS…
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Route53 not resolving domain name to an ec2 instance

Elastic IP associated with an EC2 instance I had made a transfer of domain name from one aws account to a another, the domain name worked with my previous account and it resolved to an S3 bucket before but after the transfer to an new account it…
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Heroku geolocation dns and Amazon Route 53

I have an application running on Heroku in 2 regions, eu and us. Let's say: myapp-eu.herokuapp.com and myapp-us.herokuapp.com. I would like to setup a geolocation dns that points users to the nearest region when they visit our site at…
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Connection refused error while accessing my server with AWS elastic IP

I have followed all these below mentioned steps Create an Elastic IP and point to the Amazon EC2 instance. Goto service Route 53, create a ‘A’ record and point to the Elastic IP. In Route 53, copy the Amazon NS (name server) urls and paste in…
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Use Amazon Route 53 Geolocation with a custom subnet

Is it possible to use Amazon Route 53 Geolocation routing policy with a custom subnet instead of the available Continent/Country location? I have requirements to go a bit more in depth than country level. Subnet level.
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Using/redirecting multiple domain names with single dns zone

I have one master domain name for one of my web sites. I also have many other domain names as secondary. All my DNS records are on my master domain name and for other domain names I just create zones and www records to redirect web requests to…
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Route 53 configuration for Cloudfront distribution linked to S3 bucket for naked domain

I am using route 53 for a domain (example.com) linked to my app on Heroku. To handle naked domain redirection, I am using a S3 bucket as explained here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/root-domain-website-hosting-for-amazon-s3/ As S3 doesn’t…
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How to set up AWS Cloudfront for dynamic number of domains for a dynamic site?

THE SETUP We have a webs/wix/etc-like website management system we are trying to use with CloudFront. It has the following domains and subdomains. - ourdomain: our main website - admin.ourdomain: the administration interface for every website,…