Configuring Route 53 for a web application

Before configuring Route 53 for the sample web application deployed in the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, let's first understand what a public hosted zone is. A public hosted zone contains information about routing traffic for a domain and its subdomains. Basically, it responds to queries based on the resource recordset created by a user. It is important to understand that once you create the public hosted zone, a name server (NS) record and a start of authority (SOA) record are automatically created. The NS record is important here. It provides you with four name servers that you need to configure with your registrar or DNS services, so all the queries related to your domain are routed to Amazon Route 53 name servers for resolution.

Note

If we purchase a domain from Route 53, then the hosted zone is created automatically and we don't need to create one.

1. Sign in to the AWS management console
2. Go to the Amazon Route 53 dashboard from the Services menu or visit...