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Google Cloud DNS
Migrate DNS zones to or from Google Cloud DNS: what's supported, what access you need, and what changes for each destination.
See how a domain's records would land at Cloud DNS. Free and read-only.
Access we need
- Credentials
- Service account key (JSON)
- Permissions
- roles/dns.reader for the preview, roles/dns.admin to apply.
What Cloud 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
- weighted, geo, failover
- Minimum TTL
- 0s
Record types
- A
- AAAA
- CNAME
- MX
- TXT
- NS
- SRV
- CAA
- PTR
- DS
- HTTPS
- SVCB
- TLSA
- SSHFP
- NAPTR
- SPF
Good to know
- Routing policies (weighted round robin, geolocation, failover) don't carry over to most providers.
- Apex CNAMEs are not allowed.