aws-route53

Manage DNS hosted zones and records

TLDR

List all hosted zones in your account

$ aws route53 list-hosted-zones

Get details of a specific hosted zone

$ aws route53 get-hosted-zone --id [/hostedzone/ZONE_ID]

List DNS records in a hosted zone

$ aws route53 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id [ZONE_ID]

Create a new hosted zone for a domain

$ aws route53 create-hosted-zone --name [example.com] --caller-reference [unique-string]

Test a DNS answer for a specific record

$ aws route53 test-dns-answer --hosted-zone-id [ZONE_ID] --record-name [www.example.com] --record-type [A]

List all health checks

$ aws route53 list-health-checks

SYNOPSIS

aws route53 subcommand [options]

aws route53 is the AWS CLI interface for Amazon Route 53, a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It provides commands for domain registration, DNS routing configuration, and health checking of resources.Route 53 connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS (such as EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers, or S3 buckets) and can also route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. The service offers DNS failover, geolocation routing, latency-based routing, and weighted round-robin routing.

SUBCOMMANDS

Hosted Zones

create-hosted-zone, delete-hosted-zone, get-hosted-zone, list-hosted-zones, list-hosted-zones-by-name, list-hosted-zones-by-vpc, update-hosted-zone-comment

Resource Records

change-resource-record-sets, list-resource-record-sets, test-dns-answer

Health Checks

create-health-check, delete-health-check, get-health-check, get-health-check-status, list-health-checks, update-health-check

Traffic Policies

create-traffic-policy, delete-traffic-policy, get-traffic-policy, list-traffic-policies, create-traffic-policy-instance, update-traffic-policy-instance

DNSSEC

enable-hosted-zone-dnssec, disable-hosted-zone-dnssec, get-dnssec, create-key-signing-key, delete-key-signing-key

VPC Association

associate-vpc-with-hosted-zone, disassociate-vpc-from-hosted-zone, list-vpc-association-authorizations

Query Logging

create-query-logging-config, delete-query-logging-config, get-query-logging-config, list-query-logging-configs

CIDR Collections (for IP-based routing)

create-cidr-collection, delete-cidr-collection, change-cidr-collection, list-cidr-collections, list-cidr-blocks, list-cidr-locations

Tagging / Misc

list-tags-for-resource, list-tags-for-resources, change-tags-for-resource, get-checker-ip-ranges, wait

INSTALL

sudo dnf install aws

sudo pacman -S aws-cli

sudo apk add aws-cli

sudo zypper install aws-cli

CAVEATS

DNS changes made via change-resource-record-sets are not instantaneous; propagation can take up to 60 seconds. Use get-change with the change ID to check propagation status. Hosted zone IDs must include the /hostedzone/ prefix in some commands. Route 53 has API rate limits that may affect bulk operations.

HISTORY

Amazon Route 53 was launched in December 2010 as part of AWS's infrastructure services. The name is a reference to TCP/UDP port 53, where DNS server requests are addressed. The AWS CLI support for Route 53 was introduced with the AWS CLI tool and has been continuously expanded to support features like DNSSEC (2020), CIDR collections, and traffic policies.