Using a subdomain

At this point, our Metabase instance is hosted at a subdomain of elasticbeanstalk.com. It works just fine, and we could absolutely start handing it out to other people in our organization. However, many people prefer using a subdomain to host their Metabase instance. If your domain is mydomain.com, a subdomain is something like subdomain.mydomain.com. A common subdomain pattern I've seen people use for Metabase is metabase.mydomain.com, which is a lot easier to remember, shorter, and looks more official. With a subdomain, our Metabase instance will still live at the elasticbeanstalk.com URL, but our subdomain will act as an alias for that URL.

Let's learn how to use a subdomain and create an alias for it.

First, you will have to log in to your DNS provider. Once you are logged in to your DNS provider, you will want to create an ALIAS record. An ALIAS record simply lets you point a subdomain to an external domain name (the elasticbeanstalk.com domain...