Technical Reference
AWS resources
Route 53
Hosted Zone

Hosted Zone

A Hosted Zone, within Route 53, is a container for DNS records that manage traffic for a specific domain (e.g., example.com) and its subdomains. It acts as a central repository for defining how your domain maps to internet-facing resources, such as web servers or email servers.

We can distinguish two kind of hosted zones:

  • Public Hosted Zones - Handle traffic on the public internet.
  • Private Hosted Zones - Handle traffic within one or more [VPCs](/reference/aws-resources/vpc/, offering secure, internal DNS.
Supported DNS record types