How can we make DNS entries using Route53 to a domain hosted with an external (third party) domain provider

Question

We have purchased a domain lets say "xyz.com" from a third party domain provider. We have our resources in two AWS regions and we want to implement failover between the two regions using Route53.

We have created a hosted zone with the same name as of our domain i.e. "xyz.com" and created record sets in the hosted zone with failover as the routing policy.

But as our domain is external the record sets are not getting reflected.

Please suggest a way to achieve failover using route53 with domain hosted with an external provider without moving the DNS to Route53.

Answer 1

You won't be able to do this without switching to Route53 to host your domain. Route53 must be able to control the responses to queries according to the records you have configured. You'll have to delegate your domain to Route53 by setting the NS records to the values provided in the Route53 console.