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How to configure Route53 for my Domain & Hosting plan at different servers.

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Hi, I have my domain registered with Godaddy but its hosting is in Hostgator. How do I configure my Route53 DNS for this setup. Currently the Godaddy DNS is pointed to HostGator NS. Objective : The main domain from GoDaddy is to be pointed to Route53 & all the DNS entries for my domains & subdomains in HostGator is to be migrated to Route53

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Security, Identity, & ComplianceNetworking & Content Delivery
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AWS Directory ServiceAmazon Route 53Domain Name System (DNS)
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Samba-7950781
asked a year ago253 views
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This is very doable. AWS has an entire section to walk you through how to move from your current provider to Route 53. Here is the instructions from AWS - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/MigratingDNS.html

Also Daniel Boring wrote a great how to article that describes how to move from Godaddy to Route 53, you can find that here - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/MigratingDNS.html

Here's the relevant part of the Route 53 Developer Guide for further review - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-configuring.html

Hope this helps.

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Carlos del Castillo
answered a year ago
  • Samba-7950781
    a year ago

    Hi Carlos, Thanks for the quick response. I have the setup to migrate from Godaddy or Hostgator individually. My issues here are:

    1. Godaddy is where I registered my domain name. The Nameservers are pointing to the Hostgator's Name Server.
    2. Hostgator has all my domain, subdomain and website, mailserver and the DNS records.

    So the clarification I need :

    1. Should my GoDaddy DNS point to AWS?
    2. Should I export all the DNS entries from Hostgator to AWS? Should my HostGator DNS also point to AWS R53?
    3. How many hosted zones will be there in AWS r53?
  • Carlos del Castillo
    a year ago

    To make Route 53 be your DNS provider, you would do the following:

    1. Export the DNS zone(s) your interested in migrating from Hostgator
    2. Import your DNS zone(s) into Route 53
    3. Point the relevant domains to Route 53. In GoDaddy, update so DNS is at R53.

    Then you'll have a hosted zone for each domain you migrate. Once you do this, Hostgator would not be managing your DNS records anymore (for the domains you migrate), Route 53 would be.

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