Redirect with Amazon Route 53

Creating redirect with Amazon Route 53 are not so easy but doable. I will show you how it can be done.

For this blog i wanted to create a redirect from www.nilsrudolph.de and nilsrudolph.de to blog.nilsrudolph.de.

There are some DNS providers who supports such redirects by creating a URL record but that is not a standard feature of DNS and there is no such think in Amazon Route 53.

But you can create a S3 bucket with an activated web-hosting. That S3 buckets needs to have the same name of the domain you want to redirect from (e.g. www.nilsrudolph.de). The other properties can be left to the defaults. Under the setting “Static website hosting” you can now choose “Redirect request”.

Now you can create in Route 53 a A record for your domain and choose as Alias the Alias Target the new created S3 bucket. (It may take some time after the S3 bucket creation until you can choose it here).

That is it, you now successfully create a redirect.