Deleting a public hosted zone
The following procedure explains how to delete a hosted zone using the Amazon Route 53 console.
Getting ready
Deleting a hosted zone will destroy the current routing, hence take a backup before making any changes. Also, you can delete the hosted zone if there are no resource record sets associated with it, that is, before deleting the hosted zone we need to delete the records.
How to do it...
- Sign into the AWS console, click on
Route 53
, and then click onHosted zones
.

Route 53 console
- Select the hosted zone that you want to delete.

Hosted zone console
- Delete the additional resource record set.

Delete records
- Confirm to delete the resource record sets.

Delete records
- Then, click on
Back to Hosted Zones
. To delete the hosted zone, clickDelete Hosted Zone
.

Delete hosted zones
- Confirm to delete the hosted zone.

Delete hosted zones