Serverless Programming Cookbook

The RecordSet stack

We can create a template for RecordSet, given as follows:

1. Start the template with the template version and a description (optional).
2. Define the parameters (of the string type) for the root domain name, the sub-domain name, and the S3 hosted zone ID.

Note that the S3 hosted zone is static, based on the region (for example, Z2FDTNDATAQYW2 for ap-south-1).

3. Define a resource of the type RecordSetGroup type to add A records for the domains:

Resources:  QuizzerCloudDNS:    Type: AWS::Route53::RecordSetGroup    Properties:      HostedZoneName: !Sub        - ${DomainName}.        - DomainName: !Ref RootDomainName      Comment: Zone apex alias.      RecordSets:      -        Name: !Ref RootDomainName        Type: A        AliasTarget:          HostedZoneId: !Ref RecordHostedZoneId          DNSName: !ImportValue ...