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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Pointing a domain to AWS Route 53

I am having difficulties getting my domain to point to my EC2 properly. I searched through a few third party guides online, and got slightly swamped in the official AWS documentation, but despite this I still cant get it to work. Ive have Route 53…
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Managing many entries in Route53

We use Amazon Route53 as my company's primary DNS. As we grow into using multiple services from different providers, each of them requested some kind of DNS entry to verify our domain and/or use their services. As of now we have about 60 entries in…
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AWS EC2 Instance Auto Scaling Confusion

So first off I'm completely new to AWS so bear with me. I have had one instance running for a few months now and I now need to autoscale it as I am getting bigger traffic spikes and it gets overloaded at times. So let me go through what I have done…
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Redirect all subdomains to subfolders

I'd like to add a rule so that all subdomains get redirected to a subfolder. For example: app1.example.com -> example.com/app1 app2.example.com -> example.com/app2 something.example.com -> example.com/something All subdomains will only be one level…
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CNAMEs in Route 53 using @

I'm trying out Amazon's Route 53 and have moved one of my domains over. The only issue I've encountered is that none of my CNAME records are resolving. In GoDaddy's DNS manager I was able to use @ to point a CNAME to the root domain, how do I have…
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AWS: How to redirect many domains to a page on another domain?

My objective I have a number of domains (e.g. 10 or 20) and I would like to redirect any visitors to anywhere on those pages to one page on another domain (for example my stackoverflow.com profile page). This includes apex domain using http (e.g.…
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Route 53 - cross account delegation of APEX record

We're implementing an AWS serverless stack with multiple environments. Trying to follow best practices, we created multiple accounts for different purposes. There's a DNS account, which is supposed to contain all hosted zones related to this…
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Should I transfer my domain to AWS? AWS Route53 price vs GoDaddy

I'm thinking about transferring my domains from GoDaddy to AWS Route53. But I'm a little confused about the pricing format of AWS. In GoDaddy you just pay to register the domain name each year and then you don't have to pay anything else. But in…
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Who needs to serve the SOA-record for a child zone?

Let's say we have name server A who serves for the domain name example.com and its subdomains. Then we have another name server B who would want to avail the custom-subdomain.example.com from name server A. The purpose of the name server B is to…
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Can we register domain in AWS route 53 via cloudformation?

I am new Cloudformation and I am trying to find a Cloudformation script to register the domain, say example.com under Route53. I looked at cloudformation pdf and found nothing related to domain registration under route53. Any pointers/help will be…
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CloudFormation fails deleting a stack if a hostedzone contains non-required records, how can it be avoided?

I wrote a CloudFormation template which creates a whole environment which includes the creation of VPC, HostedZone, Subnets, Autoscaling Groups, etc... The servers which are created and are members of the ASG's are running a user-data script the…
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Expose internal route53 DNS over VPN to on-premise ActiveDirectory

The situation We are migration our web-applications to AWS. To connect our on-premise network and AWS we have created a VPN connection. This works without problems. On-premise we have a MS AD (2008 R2) that is an authoritative server for (among…
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Registered domain using Route 53, using Cloudflare for DNS, having problems configuring DNS correctly

I've been trying to configure a Github Pages + Universal SSL from Cloudflare setup, unfortunately while the Jekyll/Github Pages part is going well, DNS configuration is not going as well. I've bought a domain from Amazon/AWS/Route 53…
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What should an s3 end point look like when configuring an ALIAS record in Route53?

I'm trying to point my root domain to an s3 bucket that redirects to www.mywebsite.com. However, when I try to configure my ALIAS record to point an s3 endpoint, the only endpoint that the dialogue offers me is: s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com It…
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AWS Route 53 alias-record change takes too long

I have setup a stack in AWS Cloudformation, which is up and running. The stack contains an ELB (load balancer) and a few EC2-instances. When we do a new deployment of our application, we build a new environment and delete the old one. Therefore, we…