What type of records are supported by route53?

What type of records are supported by route53?

Route 53 supports alias records for three types of load balancers: Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, and Classic Load Balancers. There is no additional charge for queries to Alias records that are mapped to AWS ELB load balancers.

How do I point my domain to route53?

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/ .

1. Choose Hosted Zones in the navigation pane.
2. Choose the name of the hosted zone.
3. Choose the NS record, and choose Edit.
4. Change the value of TTL (Seconds).
5. Choose Save changes.

How do you point a domain to a CloudFront distribution?

Point domain to CloudFront distribution

1. Go to your Cloudfront distribution under services and copy the Domain name.
2. Go to Route 53 under services, then click on the Hosted zone, created previously.
3. Select the domain we just created.
4. Click on Create record.
5. Then select Simple routing and click Next.

What is Cname Route53?

CNAME records Route 53 responds to the first DNS query with the name of the record that you want to redirect to. Then the DNS resolver must submit another query for the record in the first response to get information about where to direct traffic, for example, the IP address of a web server.

How to make Route 53 the DNS service for your domain?

The NS record identifies the four name servers that Route 53 associated with your hosted zone. To make Route 53 the DNS service for your domain, you update the registration for the domain to use these four name servers.

How is Route 53 used to create a hosted zone?

When you create a hosted zone, Route 53 automatically creates a name server (NS) record and a start of authority (SOA) record for the zone. The NS record identifies the four name servers that Route 53 associated with your hosted zone.

What do you need to know about Route 53?

In Route 53, you create a hosted zone that has the same name as your domain, and you create records in the hosted zone. Each record indicates how you want to route traffic for a specified domain name or subdomain name.

How to tell Amazon Route 53 how to route traffic?

To tell Amazon Route 53 how you want to route traffic for your domain, you create a hosted zone that has the same name as your domain, and then you create records in the hosted zone. You can create a hosted zone only for a domain that you have permission to administer.