AWS Hosted Zones

 

Hosted zones is one of the top feature of Route53, it tells Route 53 how to respond to DNS queries for a domain such as example.com.

It has records and those records contains information about how you want to route traffic for a specific domain, such as from example.com, and its subdomains (dev.example.com, qa.example.com). A hosted zone and the corresponding domain will have the same name. 

There are two types of hosted zones:

1. Public hosted zones 
2. Private hosted zones

Public hosted zones

It Contain records that specify how you want to route traffic on the internet

Private hosted zones

It contain records that specify how you want to route traffic in an Amazon VPC

Search for Route 53 in search, then click on Hosted Zones which is under DNS management.

Provide domain name like example.com, devopsvm.com, a bit of description and select which type of hosted zone is needed either public or private. Then click on create hosted zone button.