Route 53 Hosted Zones

  • A hosted zone is a collection of records for a specified domain.

  • A hosted zone is analogous to a traditional DNS zone file; it represents a collection of records that can be managed together.

  • There are two types of zones

    • Public Hosted Zone: Determines how much traffic is routed on the internet
    • Private Hosted Zone for VPC: Determines how traffic is routed within VPC (Not accessible outside of VPC).

  • For Private hosted zones you must set the following VPC settings to true

    • enableDnsHostname
    • enableDnsSupport

You also need to create a DHCP options set.