Difficulty Assigning Multiple Domains to Application Load Balancer (ALB) - Cross-Hosted Zone Issue

Question

Hello all,

I am currently facing challenges when trying to assign multiple domains to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS. The website is hosted in Azure, and the domain is registered and managed by a third-party provider.

Here's a summary of the situation:

Website: The existing website is hosted in Azure, and the domain is registered and managed by a third-party provider with the domain name "example.com."
Deployment: We are deploying a new version of the website on AWS.
Hosted Zones: In AWS Route53, we have created a public hosted zone named "website-europe.example.com" and updated the NS records on the third-party provider's side to point to this hosted zone.

Cross-Hosted Zone Issue: The problem arises when we try to create a second public hosted zone named "website-us.example.com" for users in the US to access the website. We are unable to assign this domain to the ALB because it belongs to a different hosted zone.
We are seeking advice and recommendations on how to address this issue effectively. Our goal is to redirect users from the US to access the website hosted on AWS.

Thank you in advance for your assistance and insights.

Answer

Can you confirm the issue you are having.

What’s the issue when you say, you are “unable to assign the domain to the alb”

Do you have a alb in a different availability zone but your webserver are in a different az?

Also why do you need different website for differing regions? If it’s latency, have you considered using cloudfront to front the website?

Difficulty Assigning Multiple Domains to Application Load Balancer (ALB) - Cross-Hosted Zone Issue

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