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Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

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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Redirect non-www requests to www on Amazon Route 53

I want to redirect all requests from example.com to www.example.com. Preferably, this should happen at DNS level. I tried using PTR records, but that simply fails, returning a 404. wwww.example.com is an ALIAS for an Elastic Load Balancer. What’s…
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How do I Delegate a subdomain to Route53

I have a domain hosted on my own linode under bind9 I also have a VPC in AWS and I want to maintain a DNS subdomain under Route53. I tried following the instructions at:…
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How does Route53 give priority to wildcard subdomains?

I currently have the following subdomains on my Route53: website.com => elb1 dashboard.website.com => elb1 staging.website.com => elb2 cdn.website.com => cloudfront I'd like to add a wildcard subdomain for a new feature that would match any…
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Is it possible to specify rule processing order in Amazon Route 53?

I'd like to setup a catch-all for my subdomains: *.domain.com. CNAME domain.com But, a few specific subdomains should have their own entry: mail.domain.com. A X.X.X.X *.domain.com. CNAME domain.com The problem is, how can…
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Use Amazon Route 53 Geolocation with a custom subnet

Is it possible to use Amazon Route 53 Geolocation routing policy with a custom subnet instead of the available Continent/Country location? I have requirements to go a bit more in depth than country level. Subnet level.
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Audits on Route53?

Can you perform audits on Route53 to see what was changed in the DNS records? Can you block access to route53 using IAM? I ask this because it wasn't possible a year ago.
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Route 53 won't let me add to the existing SPF record for a client because the string is too long

I am trying to add 2 entries to a client's existing SPF record in Route 53, but I'm getting the following error: *CharacterStringTooLong (Value is too long) encountered with '"v=spf1 ip4:27.127.198.240 ip4:52.63.207.103…
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AWS Geolocation routing policy: how to go to a particular website?

I wish to setup Route53 using Geolocation routing policy. This means that a browser in Paris asking for "www.mysite.com" will go to the Berlin website, while a browser in Melbourne asking for the same "www.mysite.com" will go to the Sydney…
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Route53 Health Checks - unhealthy sets still being served

I have a set of 4 load balancers, each with it's own A record for mydomain.bla Each record is something like: * Alias: No * TTL: 60s * Value: an IP address of a specific server * Routing policy: Weighted * Weight: 10 * Set ID: a unique name…
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Is it possible to set up route 53 like Azure traffic manager

We're currently evaluating different PaaS providers for node web application hosting. The leading figures seem to be AWS and Azure. We've got a decent system working in Azure but it's not as good as I would like. Multi-region hosting with a traffic…
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Route 53 going from www domain version to naked

My domain used to use www, which I was ableto get rid of using Route 53. Now if I type abcd.example, it correctly shows what used to be on www.abcd.example. The problem is, I have a handful of links with the www version, which will no longer…
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Is route53 DNS exclusive to my domain?

Are the NS addresses given by route 53 when I create hosted zone example.com exclusive to my domain example.com alone? I am not an expert on server maintainance or DNS, so please help. I am trying to develop a mapping service. My server is at…
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Route 53 not failing over

I've got 2 servers set up for a small web app. Primary A is 1.1.1.1 Secondary A is 2.2.2.2 All dns is through R53 and I have a functioning health check setup. Traffic does currently flow to 1.1.1.1 correctly. When the health check says unhealthy…
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Amazon Route 53 Domain A record Issue

I have registered a domain called thepostcloud.com (route53)and when tried to create an A record with public IP to host a web site its not able to set , all displaying in route53 console. Please advise
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Amazon Route 53 www record

I'm looking to move our current dns to route 53 due to some limitations with our provider. Currently we have A records with network solutions for: www @ (None) * (All others) other subdomains... From intial looks at the route 53 interface there…
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