Route53

Prerequisites

• Register or transfer a domain with Route53
• Deploy an app with Architect and make note of the staging and production URLs

Step 1: setup SSL certificates with AWS Certificate Manager

In this step we will request a certificate from Amazon for our domain.

• Open up AWS Certificate Manager in the AWS Console in us-east-1 (region is required!)
• Click Request a certificate and then Request a public certificate
• Ensure example.com and *.example.com for sub domains to work
• Choose DNS validation and click Next
• Add any tags and confirm the request
• Expand the domain and click Create record in Route53 button
• Verify CNAME record created in Route53 console Hosted zone

Step 2: setup custom domain with AWS API Gateway

Generate a domain with the certificate from Step 1.

• Sign into AWS API Gateway in the AWS Console
• Navigate to Custom domain names and click Create
• Enter the domain name (e.g. staging.example.com for the staging app or example.com for the production app)
• Select the certificate created in Step 1
• Click Create domain name
• Make note of the generated API Gateway domain name in Endpoint configuration
• Click on the tab API mappings and Configure API mappings
• For API select the API and for Stage select $default and click Save

Step 3: configure the domain Alias in AWS Route53

• Sign into AWS Route53 in the AWS Console
• Navigate to the Hosted zone for the domain
• Click Create record
• Enter the Record name
• Record type is A and toggle Alias checkbox on
• Select Alias to API Gateway
• Select the region
• Select the API (should be the same value as the domain generated in Step 2)
• Click Create records

Conclusion

Now we’re done! You can check to see if your domains are online with this DNS Checker tool.