This document is a part four of four articles:

I. Registering a domain name

II. Adding verification DNS records

III. Assigning a domain name to the site and create a new artifact

IV. Adding DNS records for production

After completed domain verification, let's set up ALIAS and CNAME records to make your site publicly available.

Set them up on Route 53 on this sample.

URL: https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/home

Select [Simple routing] and click [Next] button

Click [Define simple record]

Let's set up ALIAS record for your domain name.
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For example.com

Record name: should be blank

Value/Route traffic to:

Pulldown menu 1: [Alias to CloudFront distribution]

Pulldown menu 2: [US East (N. Virginia) [us-east-1]]

Input area: copied DNS record (in this sample, def456.cloudfront.net.)
​RecordType: A – Routes traffic to an IPv4 address and some AWS resources
​TTL : 300 (Default)

Then click [Save changes] button

Select [Simple routing] and click [Next] button

Click [Define simple record]

For www.example.com

Record name: www

Value/Route traffic to:

Pulldown: [IP address or another value depending on the record type]

Input area: copied DNS record (in this sample, abcd123.on.grshifter.io)
​RecordType: CNAME – Routes traffic to another domain name and to some AWS resources
​TTL : 300 (Default)

Click [Define Simple records] button.

That's all!

Your domain points to Shifter's URL