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Creating a Route 53 Hosted Zone

Amazon Route 53 is a scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to route end users to internet applications by translating human-readable domain names into the numeric IP addresses that computers use to connect to each other. Route 53 is also used to route traffic within your AWS infrastructure. Route 53 costs 0.50 USD per month per hosted zone for the first 25 hosted zones. More details here: Route 53 Pricing.

Prerequisites

Before you create a hosted zone in Route 53, you need to have the following:

  • A domain name registered with a domain registrar. If you don't have a domain name, you can register one with Route 53.
  • An AWS account. If you don't have an AWS account, you can create one at https://aws.amazon.com.

Using the AWS Management Console

Follow these steps to create a hosted zone in Route 53 using the AWS Management Console:

  1. Open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.
  2. In the navigation pane, choose Hosted zones.
  3. Click the Create hosted zone button.
  4. Enter the domain name you want to use for the hosted zone, e.g., example.com.
  5. Choose Public hosted zone
  6. Click the Create hosted zone button.
  7. Copy the name servers provided in the hosted zone details. You will need to update your domain registrar with these name servers. See these resources: