Creating a private hosted zone
A private hosted zone holds information about how you want to route traffic for a domain and its subdomain within a VPC. While creating a private hosted zone, you can only specify a single VPC, however, you can add VPC's into your hosted zone later.
Getting ready
You need to have a VPC in any region before creating a private hosted zone. To enable private zone functionality, you must set the following values to True
:
enableDnsHostnames
enableDnsSupport
How to do it...
- Sign in to the AWS console and click on
Route 53
. - Select
Get started now
underDNS Management
. - Choose
Create Hosted Zone
. - Provide the
Domain Name
. - Give some informative
Comment
. - Select
Type
asPrivate Hosted zone for Amazon VPC
.

DNS: Private Hosted Zone creation
- In the
VPC ID
list, select the VPC ID that you want to associate with the hosted zone.

Provide VPC Details
- Click on
Create
after completion.

Complete Private Hosted Zone Creation
- To create an additional VPC within the new hosted zone, click on
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