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Amazon Route 53 Domain Configuration

Learn how to point your Amazon Route 53 domain to a Pantheon site.

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Before You Begin

Be sure that you have a:

Locate Pantheon's DNS Values

Identify DNS values to point your domain to Pantheon:

  1. Navigate to the Site Dashboard and select the target environment (typically Live) then click Domains / HTTPS.
  2. Click the Details button next to your domain.

Keep this page open and login to your Amazon Route 53 account in a new tab before you continue.

Configure DNS Records on Route 53

A Record

  1. Click Hosted Zones and select the domain you wish to configure.
  2. Click Create Record Set to add a new record, then select A - IPv4 address for the record type.
  3. Leave the Name field blank and enter the A record value provided by Pantheon in the Value field.
  4. Select desired Time to Live (TTL).
  1. Click Create:

Route 53 A record

AAAA Records

  1. Click Create Record Set to add a new record, then select AAAA - IPv6 address for the record type.
  2. Leave the Name field blank and enter the both AAAA record value provided by Pantheon in the Value field.
  3. Select desired Time to Live (TTL).
  1. Click Create:

Route 53 AAAA records

Subdomains

Create one A record and 2 AAAA records for the given subdomain (e.g., www.example.com):

  1. Click Create Record Set to add a new record, then select A - IPv4 address for the record type.
  2. Enter www in the Name field and enter the A record value provided by Pantheon in the Value field (e.g. 23.185.0.2)
  3. Select desired Time to Live (TTL).
  4. Click Create:
  5. Repeat steps 1-4 for the two AAAA records.

Next Steps