Managing domains with Route 53

In this recipe, we'll show you how to host a domain in Route 53 and add some records to it:

Hosting a domain

Getting ready

You technically don't need to have registered a domain name in order to proceed with this recipe, but it helps if you have a real domain that you can use.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a hosted zone:

1. Create a new CloudFormation template and add the following parameters to it:

Parameters: 
  DomainName: 
    Description: Your domain name (example.org) 
    Type: String

2. Next, we need to add a HostedZone...