Creating and deleting records in Route53
Route53 is a scalable and highly available domain resolution service from AWS. With Route53, we can manage DNS records using the AWS console, as well as APIs, which enable us to automate several tasks where frequent changes in DNS records might be required. In this recipe, we will create a Route53 record and delete an existing Route53 record.
Getting ready
Before we do that, let us shed some light on a few keywords:
- DNS zone: This refers to a certain part of the existing global DNS name. Every DNS zone represents a boundary over certain DNS entities, the authority of which belongs to a legal entity or an organization.
- DNS type: There are various types of DNS record, for example, a type
A
record and a type CNAME record. AnA
type record maps a name to an IP address and a CNAME records the map's name with another name.
How to do it...
We can use the Route53 module for creating, retrieving, and deleting a Route53 record. In the following task, we have assumed...