amazon-route-53

Route 53 Cannot Find CloudFront Distribution

Max Rohde

Max Rohde

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Route 53 Cannot Find CloudFront Distribution

Problem

You have create a CloudFront distribution with a custom domain name (such as yourdomain.com).

Now if you try to link this distribution to your domain using Route 53, you get the following error message:

`No AWS resource exists with the Alias Target that you specified.`

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Solution

Try the following to solve this problem:

  • Make sure that the CNAME you specified for the CloudFront distribution matches your domain name exactly. For instance, if your domain name is www.yourdomain.com, make sure that this is also the CNAME.
  • When creating the record set in Route 53, make sure to select the record type `**A - IPv4 Address**` and not CNAME.
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