Linking Amazon Route 53 Domain Name to EC2 instance

Question

I have registered a domain name with Amazon Route53 and I\'m trying to link it to an EC2 instance. I\'m unable to do this successfully. I have read documentation many times

Answer 1

Documenting the solution as an answer. It sounds like you got everything correct except hooking up the hosted zone Name Servers to the domain name. This is done via NS Records. When you create a new hosted zone, it automatically assigns you Name Servers. To link the two together, you need to enter the NS records under the "Registered Domains" area.

1. First get the NS records from your hosted zone

2. Copy those records to the appropriate domain under "Registered Domains".

Note: NS Record TTL (time to live) can be as high as 72 hours (rarely), so it could take a significant amount of time for the change to be reflected in a lookup tool like dig (or browser).