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Amazon Route 53

Migrate DNS to or from Amazon Route 53, and switch nameservers at Amazon Route 53 as a registrar.

See how a domain's records would land at Route 53. Free and read-only.

Access we need

Credentials
Cross-account IAM role with an external ID
Permissions
route53:ListHostedZones, GetHostedZone, ListResourceRecordSets for the preview; ChangeResourceRecordSets and CreateHostedZone to apply.

What Route 53 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, latency, geo, failover, multivalue, geoproximity, ip
Minimum TTL
0s

Record types

  • A
  • AAAA
  • CNAME
  • MX
  • TXT
  • NS
  • SRV
  • CAA
  • PTR
  • DS
  • HTTPS
  • SVCB
  • TLSA
  • SSHFP
  • NAPTR
  • SPF

Good to know

  • Alias records can only target AWS resources or records in the same hosted zone.
  • Weighted, latency, geolocation and failover routing are Route 53 features. Most other providers can't reproduce them.
  • Apex CNAMEs are not allowed. Use an alias record instead.