Domain redirection based on Geo - AWS

Question

I have basically 2 hosted zones **.com and **.co.in. For all the incoming traffic from India , if user browses .com it should automatically redirect to co.in . How do we do this in AWS . I read this http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resource-record-sets-values-geo.html#rrsets-values-geo-location and implemented in co.in hosted zone but does not seem to work. Also I think there should be some domain redirection set up in .com but cant find where we can do in Route53

Regards Raghav

Answer 1

To simplify my solution, I'm going to refer to these domains as example.com and example.co.in. Here's how I'd solve this:

S3 Bucket for example.com:

Static Website Hosting:
  Redirect Requests:
    Target Bucket or Domain: example.co.in

Note the region that this bucket is created in, such as us-east-1, we'll need that later

Route 53 Record Set for example.com For India:

Type: CNAME
Value: example.co.in.s3-static-website-[region].amazonaws.com
Routing Policy: Geolocation
  Location: India
  Set ID: India Redirect

Route 53 Record Set for example.com Not India:

You'd set your Type and Value as normal

Routing Policy: Geolocation
  Location: Default
  Set ID: Regular Traffic

Further Reading:

• Geolocation Resource Record Sets
• How Do I Redirect Requests to an S3 Bucket Hosted Website to Another Host?