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IP address for AWS hosting account required to input A value in GoDaddy DNS zone.

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Hello, I have a website that is being hosted by AWS, directly linked with Github, so we are not using Amazon Route 53. The domain is from GoDaddy. I need to input the 'A' value (which is an IP address from the hosting account) Does anyone know what is the IP address for AWS?

  • Harshavardhan_G SUPPORT ENGINEER
    a year ago

    What service within AWS are you using to host your website? Is it an EC2 instance, an S3 bucket, etc?

  • Govind Kumar EXPERT
    a year ago
    • If you are hosting your website on a standalone EC2 instance, you can attach an elastic IP to it and map the A record residing on GoDaddy to the EIP.
    • If you are using an Application Load Balancer on top of your EC2/Lambda/ECS resource, it returns the CNAME by default. Although you can get the IP address of the ALB using nslookup, it will change over time. The best solution is to use a Network Load Balancer on top of your Application Load Balancer. In this case, your Application Load Balancer would be a Target Group sitting behind the NLB Target Group, and your ALB would have the EC2 instance as a Target Group.
    • Another workaround is to host your application in AWS Lightsail and attach an elastic IP to it.
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  • If you are hosting your website on a standalone EC2 instance, you can attach an elastic IP to it and map the A record residing on GoDaddy to the EIP.

  • If you are using an Application Load Balancer on top of your EC2/Lambda/ECS resource, it returns the CNAME by default. Although you can get the IP address of the ALB using nslookup, it will change over time. The best solution is to use a Network Load Balancer on top of your Application Load Balancer. In this case, your Application Load Balancer would be a Target Group sitting behind the NLB Target Group, and your ALB would have the EC2 instance as a Target Group.

  • Another workaround is to host your application in AWS Lightsail and attach an elastic IP to it.

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Govind Kumar
answered a year ago

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