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How to use Route 53 on top of Cloudflare
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How to use AWS's Route 53 on top of Cloudflare?

Configure Route 53

  • Create a Public Hosted Zone in Route 53
  • Create a simple record for the domain you want, and where do you want to target that domain to?
  • By now, you should have 3 records under the hosted zone that you just created
    • NS
    • SOA
    • A
  • Copy all the 4 nameservers associated with this "Hosted Zone". You should be able to find those under Hosted zone details

Configure Cloudflare

  • Now we want to direct the traffic coming to Cloudflare (for a particular subdomain) to AWS's Route 53
  • Add all the 4 nameservers to the DNS settings in Cloudflare
    • Type: NS
    • Name: api in case the subdomain is api.example.com
    • Content: Each of the nameservers that you just copied from the Route 53 Hosted zone
    • TTL: Auto
    • Proxy Status: DNS only

That's about it. Just wait for a few mins and you should be able to access with your own subdomain.

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