Route 53 Cannot Find CloudFront Distribution

Max Rohde AWS December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 1 Minute

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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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 http://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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Published by Max Rohde

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Published December 5, 2016December 5, 2016

NearlyNormal says:

February 12, 2017 at 12:32 am

Thank you for this. It’s a very confusing implementation by AWS. Usually these are CNAMEs, not “A aliases”. Anyway, I presume the same works with subdomains?

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1. Max Rohde says:
  
  February 12, 2017 at 9:40 am
  
  Thank you for your comment! Yes, it should work the same with subdomains!
  
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Foobarbaz says:

April 8, 2017 at 12:02 pm

Thanks for this — I was also trying a CNAME to no avail.

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Tyler Rafferty says:

June 6, 2017 at 4:19 am

Their documentation states that in order to create a Route53 record set with an alias to the CloudFront distribution domain on an APEX record (e.g. root domain ) you must use an A-type record.

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