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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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Multiple TXT fields for same subdomain

I would like to understand if multiple TXT records for the same subdomain are ok or could lead to issues. In particular, we have the requirement for one SPF record and one Google Domain Verification record on the root domain. In AWS Route 53 they…
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Why does AWS recommend against public S3 buckets?

"We highly recommend that you never grant any kind of public access to your S3 bucket." I have set a very granular public policy (s3:GetObject) for one bucket that I use to host a website. Route53 explicitly supports aliasing a bucket for this…
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Route 53 doesn't allow adding DKIM keys because length is too long

Here is how I enter the value for DKIM key: "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAwztXzIUqic95qSESmnqX U5v4W4ENbciFWyBkymsmmSNOhLlEtzp/mnyhf50ApwCTGLK9U7goo/ijX/wr5roy…
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Tried to create 2 record set type=TXT in Route53

I'm trying to add a second TXT record to a domain, but I get the following error: Tried to create resource record set type='TXT but it already exists Can I add two records at the same domain?
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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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Can different AWS accounts manage different subdomains?

I have two AWS accounts. The master account with example.com as a Hosted Zone, this then has a number of record sets (i.e. api.example.com and kibana.example.com). A second account will be managing testing.example.com as a Hosted Zone, with the…
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How do I redirect www to non-www in Route53?

I host my site at domain.com. My DNS entries in Route53 are as follows: domain.com A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 300 domain.com NS stuff.awsdns-47.org 172800 domain.com SOA stuff.awsdns-47.org 900 I would like to redirect…
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Should I append a dot (.) at the end of my DNS urls?

Ive noticed that AWS's DNS service (Route53) appends a dot (.) at the end of every DNS url: ns-xxx.awsdns-yy.co.uk. ns-xxx.awsdns-yy.net. ns-xxx.awsdns-yy.org. ns-xxx.awsdns-yy.com. Question: Is this a bug, or should I include the . in my DNS…
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How to export a hosted zone in AWS Route 53?

I see no option to export a backup of the settings for a domain. Maybe I should save the results of public DNS with dig but I would question whether a friend knows a better way.
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How long does it take for a Route 53 CNAME to work?

I have set up a CNAME in Amazon's Route 53 to point to another server. This is a new CNAME for a new subdomain pointing to an existing domain name. With other DNS providers that I've worked with, new Canonical Name records have aliased to another…
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No targets available when trying to set alias target from Route 53 to S3

I'm trying to setup a simple Amazon AWS S3 based website, as explained here. I've setup the S3 bucket (simples3websitetest.com), gave it the (hopefully) right permissions: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { …
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"SOA Serial Number Format is Invalid" warning by mxtoolbox.com - why?

When testing the SOA setting for example-domain.org on http://mxtoolbox.com/, it says that SOA Serial Number Format is Invalid The entry is ns-885.awsdns-46.net. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400 That, however, is exactly…
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Aws vpc default route table in CloudFormation

Am I missing something but is there no way to add a route via CloudFormation to the default route table that comes provisioned with a VPC?
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What is the difference between Anycast and GeoDNS / GeoIP wrt HA?

Based on the Wikipedia description of Anycast, it includes both the distribution of a domain-name-to-many-IP-mapping across many DNS servers as well as replying to clients with the most geographically close (or fastest) server. In the context of a…
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How do I determine the ARN of my Amazon route53-hosted zone?

I've got some machines which automatically update DNS in Route53. So far there are only two zones in Route53, and both of them are updated this way, so I have an IAM policy which says "blah blah blah, Resource: "*"" and everything is good. Now I…
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