Route 53 Hosted Zone

Create a Route 53 Hosted Zone to program DNS entries

The DuploCloud Platform needs a unique Route 53 hosted zone to create DNS entries for Services that you deploy. The domain must be created out-of-band and set in DuploCloud. The zone is a subdomain such as apps.[MY-COMPANY].com.

For more info about DNS setup and custom DNS names, see the DNS Configuration documentation.

Never use this subdomain for anything else, as DuploCloud owns all CNAME entries in this domain and removes all entries it has no record of.

Creating a Route 53 Hosted Zone Using AWS Console

1. Log in to AWS Console.

2. Navigate to Route 53 and Hosted Zones.

3. Create a new Route53 Hosted Zone with the desired domain name, for example, apps.acme.com.

4. Access the Hosted Zone and note the name server names.

5. Go to your root domain provider's site (e.g., acme.com), and create an NS record that references the domain name of the Hosted Zone you created (apps.acme.com). Add the zone name to the name servers that you noted above.

Once this is complete, provision the Route53 domain in every DuploCloud Plan, starting with the DEFAULT Plan. Add the Route53 Hosted Zone ID and domain name, preceded with a dot (.).

Do not forget the dot (.) at the beginning of the DNS suffix, in the form as shown below.

The DNS tab for the DEFAULT Plan shows External and Internal Suffix values beginning with a dot (.)

Note that this domain must be set in each new Plan you create in your DuploCloud Infrastructure.