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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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DNS A record ALIASES, and ANAME record differences

We have a number of groups of servers on AWS that use trios of servers to serve out sites. Each server, or set of servers is within a different availability region, one of which is a redirection server while the other two are the primary servers…
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Setting up CloudFlare with Route 53?

I'm trying to get CloudFlare to sit in front of Route 53. I have my main web server on an ELB (which doesn't have an IP address). CloudFlare needs an IP for an A record, so how can I accomplish this?
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AWS Solution for wildcard subdomains (with SSL)

Is there a solution within AWS for implementing a wildcard subdomain (with Route 53). where any subdomain ex1.example.com, ex2.example.com or whatever.example.com can all point to the same server? This server would then have a wildcard SSL cert to…
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AWS Route 53 CNAME - dot at end of target value or not?

My hosted zone at AWS seem to be working fine so I am a little nervous about changing it -- but I noticed that my CNAME record for my white-label DNS looks like this right now (no trailing dot): *.localroute.net. CNAME localroute.net - -…
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How to boot EC2 with preset hostname?

With Digital Ocean, I'm able to set a fully qualified domain name before starting it and I sorely miss this feature with AWS EC2. Currently I manually go into a newly started Ubuntu 16.04 LTS instance and: sudo hostnamectl set-hostname…
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Route 53 - Should I duplicate my SPF records as TXT records?

Amazon Route 53 supports both "SPF Records" and "TXT Records". Most documentation I read tells me to list my SPF Record as a TXT Record. I understand that the SPF Record is a newer standard. Is it therefore correct for me to duplicate my SPF Records…
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Can AWS block access from embargoed countries?

My company blocks US-embargoed countries from accessing several e-commerce sites that we manage. I have to investigate whether we can move our current blocking solution to AWS as well. If AWS does not offer a means by which to block these countries,…
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How to address an EC2 instance from both inside and outside datacenter?

I'm trying to find a good way of being able to address my EC2 database instance from both inside and outside of the datacenter. Other EC2 instances need to be able to call into it, and other clients like pgAdmin might need to connect to it from the…
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Using Route53 to point apex/root domain to Heroku application

This is something that I've seen discussed in some other places, but this issue in particular hasn't been spelled out exactly as not being possible. I want to point an apex domain to a heroku app (example.com to example.herokuapp.com) CNAME doesn't…
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How do I Delegate a subdomain to Route53

I have a domain hosted on my own linode under bind9 I also have a VPC in AWS and I want to maintain a DNS subdomain under Route53. I tried following the instructions at:…
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Elastic IP vs EC2 Public Hostname + Route53

We are evaluating to use Elastic IP on all of our ec2 instances, and we compare to the use of public EC2 hostname and Route53 (with a very short TTL to the public EC2 hostname & dynamic update DNS during instance boot). We found out the use the EIP…
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HAProxy doesn't automatically reload DNS

I've installed HAProxy 1.7.5-2 on a Debian Stretch (9) for a blue/green deployment infrastructure. HAProxy is setup in TCP mode and reloads DNS every 5 seconds but it doesn't. global log 127.0.0.1 local0 warning stats socket…
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Cloudflare + AWS route 53 combined to handle records

I bought my domain from Godaddy, I use cloudflare for most of my services, so i added the nameserver to my godaddy domain configuration. So lets say I have api.mydomain.com firmware.mydomain.com forum.mydomain.com as CNAME records pointed to my…
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Deleted then recreated Route 53 hosted zones, now website not working

I have two AWS accounts old and new. The domain is purchased from the old account and the site is hosted in the new one. I was planning to delete the old and so requested for domain transfer to AWS team and they have done. So I have created new…
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How does Route53 give priority to wildcard subdomains?

I currently have the following subdomains on my Route53: website.com => elb1 dashboard.website.com => elb1 staging.website.com => elb2 cdn.website.com => cloudfront I'd like to add a wildcard subdomain for a new feature that would match any…
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