Must use www for DNS entry using Amazon Route53

Question

I administered my domain e.g www.abcd.com in Amazon Route53. Everything works perfectly, except that when user type abcd.com without www, it won\'t get resolved. Any idea? Thank

Answer 1

Here is the solution that worked for me.

1. Name: www.domain.com
2. Type: A - IPv4 Address
3. Alias: Yes
4. Alias Target: Select the value from the drop-down list that you have for domain.com
5. Leave other settings and press Save Record Set

By the way Amazon does not charge for Alias queries. More information here.

Amazon Route 53 doesn't charge for alias queries to CloudFront distributions, ELB load balancers, or Amazon S3 buckets.