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Routing an AWS Registered Domain to Netlify — November 27, 2018

• AWS
• DNS
• Netlify
• Route 53

I recently tried to use Netlify’s managed DNS with a domain name registered through AWS and struggled. While it turned out that I was being a bit of an idiot, I figured I would share the problem and solution here. First Attempt As the instructions state when you attempt to register an externally managed domain with Netlify, you must switch over the nameservers to the ones managed by Netlify.