Using Amazon Route 53 with DigitalOcean Droplets

whiteladybug

I have a digital ocean droplet that I want to use with my amazon route 53 DNS. I have tried following the directions here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-amazon-s-route-53-dns-service-with-digitalocean-droplets

But I'm still having trouble getting it to work. Has anyone else had success using Route 53 with a Digital Ocean droplet?

Carl787

Adding an Amazon Route 53 Alias Record for a DigitalOcean Load Balancer

To get started, please sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/r53/.
In the navigation pane, choose Hosted zones.
Select the hosted zone that you want to use for the alias record. You can use the domain name of your website or load balancer as a guide. For example, if you want the alias record for www.example.com, choose the hosted zone for example.com.
Choose Create Record Set.
For Name, type the subdomain name that you want to route traffic to. For example, type www.
For Type, choose A - IPv4 address.
Under Alias, for Alias Target, choose the resource that you want to route traffic to. You can route traffic to a load balancer, an Amazon S3 bucket, an Elastic Beanstalk environment, or another RecordSet in the same hosted zone.
If you're using an alias resource record set for a load balancer, you can set the Evaluate Target Health check box to route traffic to healthy endpoints only. This is the recommended setting.
Choose Create Record Set.

After you create the alias resource record set, Amazon Route 53 responds to DNS queries with the IP address of the load balancer. If you're using the weighted or latency-based routing policies, Amazon Route 53 also associates each of the resource record sets in the alias target with the corresponding health check.

orangepeacock

Amazon Route 53 is a powerful Domain Name System (DNS) service which allows you to point your domain to an IP address of your choosing.

It is a great tool to use to point your domain to a Digital Ocean Droplet, as it provides a solid and robust platform for managing your domain.

To use Amazon Route 53 to point your domain to a Digital Ocean Droplet, you need to first create a Droplet on Digital Ocean. Once your Droplet is created, you will see the Droplet's IP address.

Next, you need to create a Hosted Zone within your Amazon Route 53 service and add a Record Set to it by entering the IP address of your Digital Ocean Droplet. This step will link the domain name to your Digital Ocean Droplet's IP address.

You should then check the existing DNS records for your domain and ensure that the nameservers set up by Amazon Route 53 are listed, as this is a necessary step to ensure the domain can be routed correctly to the Digital Ocean Droplet.

Finally, you need to configure the Security Group in the Digital Ocean Droplet to enable traffic on the desired ports.

For more information, please visit Amazon Route 53’s official website: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/
and Digital Ocean’s official website: https://www.digitalocean.com/