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@aws-cdk/aws-route53

The CDK Construct Library for AWS::Route53

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Amazon Route53 Construct Library

cfn-resources: Stable

cdk-constructs: Stable

To add a public hosted zone:

import * as route53 from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53';

new route53.PublicHostedZone(this, 'HostedZone', {
  zoneName: 'fully.qualified.domain.com'
});

To add a private hosted zone, use PrivateHostedZone. Note that enableDnsHostnames and enableDnsSupport must have been enabled for the VPC you're configuring for private hosted zones.

import * as ec2 from '@aws-cdk/aws-ec2';
import * as route53 from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53';

const vpc = new ec2.Vpc(this, 'VPC');

const zone = new route53.PrivateHostedZone(this, 'HostedZone', {
  zoneName: 'fully.qualified.domain.com',
  vpc    // At least one VPC has to be added to a Private Hosted Zone.
});

Additional VPCs can be added with zone.addVpc().

Adding Records

To add a TXT record to your zone:

import * as route53 from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53';

new route53.TxtRecord(this, 'TXTRecord', {
  zone: myZone,
  recordName: '_foo',  // If the name ends with a ".", it will be used as-is;
                       // if it ends with a "." followed by the zone name, a trailing "." will be added automatically;
                       // otherwise, a ".", the zone name, and a trailing "." will be added automatically.
                       // Defaults to zone root if not specified.
  values: [            // Will be quoted for you, and " will be escaped automatically.
    'Bar!',
    'Baz?'
  ],
  ttl: Duration.minutes(90),       // Optional - default is 30 minutes
});

To add an A record to your zone:

import * as route53 from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53';

new route53.ARecord(this, 'ARecord', {
  zone: myZone,
  target: route53.RecordTarget.fromIpAddresses('1.2.3.4', '5.6.7.8')
});

To add an A record for an EC2 instance with an Elastic IP (EIP) to your zone:

import * as ec2 from '@aws-cdk/aws-ec2';
import * as route53 from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53';

const instance = new ec2.Instance(this, 'Instance', {
  // ...
});

const elasticIp = new ec2.CfnEIP(this, 'EIP', {
  domain: 'vpc',
  instanceId: instance.instanceId
});

new route53.ARecord(this, 'ARecord', {
  zone: myZone,
  target: route53.RecordTarget.fromIpAddresses(elasticIp.ref)
});

To add an AAAA record pointing to a CloudFront distribution:

import * as route53 from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53';
import * as targets from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53-targets';

new route53.AaaaRecord(this, 'Alias', {
  zone: myZone,
  target: route53.RecordTarget.fromAlias(new targets.CloudFrontTarget(distribution))
});

Constructs are available for A, AAAA, CAA, CNAME, MX, NS, SRV and TXT records.

Use the CaaAmazonRecord construct to easily restrict certificate authorities allowed to issue certificates for a domain to Amazon only.

To add a NS record to a HostedZone in different account

import * as route53 from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53';

// In the account containing the HostedZone
const parentZone = new route53.PublicHostedZone(this, 'HostedZone', {
  zoneName: 'someexample.com',
  crossAccountZoneDelegationPrincipal: new iam.AccountPrincipal('12345678901')
});

// In this account
const subZone = new route53.PublicHostedZone(this, 'SubZone', {
  zoneName: 'sub.someexample.com'
});

new route53.CrossAccountZoneDelegationRecord(this, 'delegate', {
  delegatedZone: subZone,
  parentHostedZoneId: parentZone.hostedZoneId,
  delegationRole: parentZone.crossAccountDelegationRole
});

Imports

If you don't know the ID of the Hosted Zone to import, you can use the HostedZone.fromLookup:

HostedZone.fromLookup(this, 'MyZone', {
  domainName: 'example.com'
});

HostedZone.fromLookup requires an environment to be configured. Check out the documentation for more documentation and examples. CDK automatically looks into your ~/.aws/config file for the [default] profile. If you want to specify a different account run cdk deploy --profile [profile].

new MyDevStack(app, 'dev', { 
  env: { 
    account: process.env.CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT, 
    region: process.env.CDK_DEFAULT_REGION 
}});

If you know the ID and Name of a Hosted Zone, you can import it directly:

const zone = HostedZone.fromHostedZoneAttributes(this, 'MyZone', {
  zoneName: 'example.com',
  hostedZoneId: 'ZOJJZC49E0EPZ',
});

Alternatively, use the HostedZone.fromHostedZoneId to import hosted zones if you know the ID and the retrieval for the zoneName is undesirable.

const zone = HostedZone.fromHostedZoneId(this, 'MyZone', 'ZOJJZC49E0EPZ');

VPC Endpoint Service Private DNS

When you create a VPC endpoint service, AWS generates endpoint-specific DNS hostnames that consumers use to communicate with the service. For example, vpce-1234-abcdev-us-east-1.vpce-svc-123345.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com. By default, your consumers access the service with that DNS name. This can cause problems with HTTPS traffic because the DNS will not match the backend certificate:

curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'vpce-abcdefghijklmnopq-rstuvwx.vpce-svc-abcdefghijklmnopq.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com'

Effectively, the endpoint appears untrustworthy. To mitigate this, clients have to create an alias for this DNS name in Route53.

Private DNS for an endpoint service lets you configure a private DNS name so consumers can access the service using an existing DNS name without creating this Route53 DNS alias This DNS name can also be guaranteed to match up with the backend certificate.

Before consumers can use the private DNS name, you must verify that you have control of the domain/subdomain.

Assuming your account has ownership of the particular domain/subdomain, this construct sets up the private DNS configuration on the endpoint service, creates all the necessary Route53 entries, and verifies domain ownership.

import { Stack } from '@aws-cdk/core';
import { Vpc, VpcEndpointService } from '@aws-cdk/aws-ec2';
import { NetworkLoadBalancer } from '@aws-cdk/aws-elasticloadbalancingv2';
import { PublicHostedZone } from '@aws-cdk/aws-route53';

stack = new Stack();
vpc = new Vpc(stack, 'VPC');
nlb = new NetworkLoadBalancer(stack, 'NLB', {
  vpc,
});
vpces = new VpcEndpointService(stack, 'VPCES', {
  vpcEndpointServiceLoadBalancers: [nlb],
});
// You must use a public hosted zone so domain ownership can be verified
zone = new PublicHostedZone(stack, 'PHZ', {
  zoneName: 'aws-cdk.dev',
});
new VpcEndpointServiceDomainName(stack, 'EndpointDomain', {
  endpointService: vpces,
  domainName: 'my-stuff.aws-cdk.dev',
  publicHostedZone: zone,
});

Keywords

aws
cdk
constructs
route53

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