At the Amazon Route 53 web console, under DNS management, we can create hosted zones. These are just logical containers for specific domain records, such as www.example.com, and sub-domains, such as subdomain.example.com. There are various types of records, and each record has a specific purpose. Later in this chapter, we will see all the supported record types in Amazon Route 53.
A hosted zone for a domain exists on a domain nameserver, usually with the company from where we have registered a domain name. If we have registered our domain name with another service provider, it is possible to migrate it to Amazon Route 53. If you do not wish to migrate your existing domain from an earlier register, you can still create your hosted zones on Amazon Route 53. Once you have created your hosted zones on Route 53, it will create four nameservers, storing all the records...
