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Azure DNS
Migrate DNS zones to or from Azure DNS: what's supported, what access you need, and what changes for each destination.
See how a domain's records would land at Azure DNS. Free and read-only.
Access we need
- Credentials
- Service principal (client ID + secret)
- Permissions
- Reader on the DNS zone for the preview, DNS Zone Contributor to apply.
What Azure DNS supports
The same data the translation engine uses when it plans a migration.
- Create zones through the API
- List zones through the API
- Turn on DNSSEC through the API
- Apex CNAME (flattening)
- Apex ALIAS record
- Aliases to cloud resources
- CDN proxy on records
- Routing policies
- Minimum TTL
- auto
Record types
- A
- AAAA
- CNAME
- MX
- TXT
- NS
- SRV
- CAA
- PTR
Good to know
- Azure alias records point at Azure resource IDs, which don't exist outside Azure.
- Apex CNAMEs are not allowed. Use an alias record to an Azure resource or A/AAAA records.