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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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RRSet of type CNAME with DNS name foo.com. is not permitted at apex in zone bar.com

I own foo.com and bar.com. I am managing both in Route53. foo.com hosts my site, and I'd like to direct traffic from bar.com to foo.com. I tried to set up a CNAME record for bar.com pointing to foo.com, but I got the error message: RRSet of type…
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Set up DNS based URL forwarding in Amazon Route53

I'm trying to setup forwarding in Amazon Route53. My last DNS service (Nettica) allowed me to route requests to "aws.example.com" to "https://myaccount.signin.aws.amazon.com/console/". Is this functionality supported by Route53? How does Nettica…
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CloudFront distribution not showing as Route53 alias target

I’m trying to add a route 53 record set that points to my cloudfront distribution. However, when I select ‘create record set’ in route 53 and click the alias target in the subsequent panel, the cloud front distribution is not listed. All I get is…
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Exporting DNS zonefile from Amazon Route 53

I would like to export a DNS zonefile from my Amazon Route 53 setup. Is this possible, or can zonefiles only be created manually? (e.g. through http://www.zonefile.org/?lang=en)
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Cloudfront redirect www to naked domain with ssl

Forgive me if this has been asked before, there are a number of resources that touch on this, but nothing seems to fit for my specific (https) use-case. I'm trying to redirect https://www.example.com to https://example.com. Likewise, this should…
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How to move a domain from Godaddy to AWS Route 53

Since Godaddy went down for some hours my client and I are very upset and want to change everything to AWS. Everything is done so far, only the domains (blablabla.com) are missing, I'm having a hard time trying to migrate from godaddy to Route 53,…
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Does it make sense to have an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer with just one EC2 instance?

My question is simple. Does it make sense to have an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) with just one EC2 instance? If I understood right, ELB will switch traffic between EC2 instances. However, I have just one EC2 instance. So, does it make…
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How do I redirect a naked (apex) domain to www using Route 53?

I need to do a 301 redirect from example.com to www.example.com using Route 53 (and S3 if necessary). There are a few solutions for similar problems but they either do not address how to redirect from the apex or they simply don't work. When I…
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What does the dualstack prefix mean in AWS ELB?

When I add an ELB as Alias Target in AWS Route 53, it automatically adds the dualstack prefix to my ELB DNS. What does this represent? When I try dig, both returns the same endpoints. Note: This is an internal load balancer.
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How do you put up a maintenance page for AWS when your instances are behind an ELB?

How do you put up a maintenance page in AWS when you want to deploy new versions of your application behind an ELB? We want to have the ELB route traffic to the maintenance instance while the new auto-scaled instances are coming up, and only "flip…
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Cross Account Alias Records

Is it possible to create an Alias record in Route 53 to a resource in another AWS account? Use Case: I have 2 AWS accounts. My domain is configured with a hosted zone in account A and I have an ELB in account B. I want to create a record to my ELB…
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Can I have a route53 subdomain in a different Hosted Zone?

I have foo.com as a Hosted Zone with an A, NS, SOA, TXT and MX Record Sets. It works fine. Now I want a separate test.foo.com with an A entry but I want it in a separate Hosted Zone. Is it possible? If I put an A record in foo.com's Hosted Zone with…
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Redirect to index.html for S3 subfolder

I have a domain example.com. I have a S3 bucket named example.com setup with an index.html file that works. Now I like to create two subfolders called old and new, each containing a separate version of a single page application. Requesting…
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Have Route 53 point to an instance instead of an IP or CNAME?

We're using Route 53 DNS to point to an EC2 instance. Is there any way to get Route 53 to point to the instance directly, instead of to an Elastic IP or CNAME? I have multiple reasons for this: I don't want to burn an IP. CNAMEs are unreliable,…
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How to forward http request to https in Amazon Route53?

I have a subdomain in Amazon Route53. Let's say secure.example.com If requests come like https://secure.example.com it is ok but I would like to force http requests to come through https. When user types http://secure.example.com it needs to be…
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