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Create Hosted Zone

route53_create_hosted_zone R Documentation

Creates a new public or private hosted zone

Description

Creates a new public or private hosted zone. You create records in a public hosted zone to define how you want to route traffic on the internet for a domain, such as example.com, and its subdomains (apex.example.com, acme.example.com). You create records in a private hosted zone to define how you want to route traffic for a domain and its subdomains within one or more Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs).

You can't convert a public hosted zone to a private hosted zone or vice versa. Instead, you must create a new hosted zone with the same name and create new resource record sets.

For more information about charges for hosted zones, see Amazon Route 53 Pricing.

Note the following:

  • You can't create a hosted zone for a top-level domain (TLD) such as .com.

  • For public hosted zones, Route 53 automatically creates a default SOA record and four NS records for the zone. For more information about SOA and NS records, see NS and SOA Records that Route 53 Creates for a Hosted Zone in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.

    If you want to use the same name servers for multiple public hosted zones, you can optionally associate a reusable delegation set with the hosted zone. See the DelegationSetId element.

  • If your domain is registered with a registrar other than Route 53, you must update the name servers with your registrar to make Route 53 the DNS service for the domain. For more information, see Migrating DNS Service for an Existing Domain to Amazon Route 53 in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.

When you submit a create_hosted_zone request, the initial status of the hosted zone is PENDING. For public hosted zones, this means that the NS and SOA records are not yet available on all Route 53 DNS servers. When the NS and SOA records are available, the status of the zone changes to INSYNC.

The create_hosted_zone request requires the caller to have an ec2:DescribeVpcs permission.

When creating private hosted zones, the Amazon VPC must belong to the same partition where the hosted zone is created. A partition is a group of Amazon Web Services Regions. Each Amazon Web Services account is scoped to one partition.

The following are the supported partitions:

  • aws - Amazon Web Services Regions

  • aws-cn - China Regions

  • aws-us-gov - Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) Region

For more information, see Access Management in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

Usage

route53_create_hosted_zone(Name, VPC, CallerReference, HostedZoneConfig,
  DelegationSetId)

Arguments

Name

[required] The name of the domain. Specify a fully qualified domain name, for example, www.example.com. The trailing dot is optional; Amazon Route 53 assumes that the domain name is fully qualified. This means that Route 53 treats www.example.com (without a trailing dot) and www.example.com. (with a trailing dot) as identical.

If you're creating a public hosted zone, this is the name you have registered with your DNS registrar. If your domain name is registered with a registrar other than Route 53, change the name servers for your domain to the set of NameServers that create_hosted_zone returns in DelegationSet.

VPC

(Private hosted zones only) A complex type that contains information about the Amazon VPC that you're associating with this hosted zone.

You can specify only one Amazon VPC when you create a private hosted zone. If you are associating a VPC with a hosted zone with this request, the paramaters VPCId and VPCRegion are also required.

To associate additional Amazon VPCs with the hosted zone, use associate_vpc_with_hosted_zone after you create a hosted zone.

CallerReference

[required] A unique string that identifies the request and that allows failed create_hosted_zone requests to be retried without the risk of executing the operation twice. You must use a unique CallerReference string every time you submit a create_hosted_zone request. CallerReference can be any unique string, for example, a date/time stamp.

HostedZoneConfig

(Optional) A complex type that contains the following optional values:

  • For public and private hosted zones, an optional comment

  • For private hosted zones, an optional PrivateZone element

If you don't specify a comment or the PrivateZone element, omit HostedZoneConfig and the other elements.

DelegationSetId

If you want to associate a reusable delegation set with this hosted zone, the ID that Amazon Route 53 assigned to the reusable delegation set when you created it. For more information about reusable delegation sets, see create_reusable_delegation_set.

If you are using a reusable delegation set to create a public hosted zone for a subdomain, make sure that the parent hosted zone doesn't use one or more of the same name servers. If you have overlapping nameservers, the operation will cause a ConflictingDomainsExist error.

Value

A list with the following syntax: 

list(
  HostedZone = list(
    Id = "string",
    Name = "string",
    CallerReference = "string",
    Config = list(
      Comment = "string",
      PrivateZone = TRUE|FALSE
    ),
    ResourceRecordSetCount = 123,
    LinkedService = list(
      ServicePrincipal = "string",
      Description = "string"
    )
  ),
  ChangeInfo = list(
    Id = "string",
    Status = "PENDING"|"INSYNC",
    SubmittedAt = as.POSIXct(
      "2015-01-01"
    ),
    Comment = "string"
  ),
  DelegationSet = list(
    Id = "string",
    CallerReference = "string",
    NameServers = list(
      "string"
    )
  ),
  VPC = list(
    VPCRegion = "us-east-1"|"us-east-2"|"us-west-1"|"us-west-2"|"eu-west-1"|"eu-west-2"|"eu-west-3"|"eu-central-1"|"eu-central-2"|"ap-east-1"|"me-south-1"|"us-gov-west-1"|"us-gov-east-1"|"us-iso-east-1"|"us-iso-west-1"|"us-isob-east-1"|"me-central-1"|"ap-southeast-1"|"ap-southeast-2"|"ap-southeast-3"|"ap-south-1"|"ap-south-2"|"ap-northeast-1"|"ap-northeast-2"|"ap-northeast-3"|"eu-north-1"|"sa-east-1"|"ca-central-1"|"cn-north-1"|"af-south-1"|"eu-south-1"|"eu-south-2"|"ap-southeast-4"|"il-central-1"|"ca-west-1"|"ap-southeast-5",
    VPCId = "string"
  ),
  Location = "string"
)

Request syntax

svc$create_hosted_zone(
  Name = "string",
  VPC = list(
    VPCRegion = "us-east-1"|"us-east-2"|"us-west-1"|"us-west-2"|"eu-west-1"|"eu-west-2"|"eu-west-3"|"eu-central-1"|"eu-central-2"|"ap-east-1"|"me-south-1"|"us-gov-west-1"|"us-gov-east-1"|"us-iso-east-1"|"us-iso-west-1"|"us-isob-east-1"|"me-central-1"|"ap-southeast-1"|"ap-southeast-2"|"ap-southeast-3"|"ap-south-1"|"ap-south-2"|"ap-northeast-1"|"ap-northeast-2"|"ap-northeast-3"|"eu-north-1"|"sa-east-1"|"ca-central-1"|"cn-north-1"|"af-south-1"|"eu-south-1"|"eu-south-2"|"ap-southeast-4"|"il-central-1"|"ca-west-1"|"ap-southeast-5",
    VPCId = "string"
  ),
  CallerReference = "string",
  HostedZoneConfig = list(
    Comment = "string",
    PrivateZone = TRUE|FALSE
  ),
  DelegationSetId = "string"
)