Registering, changing, and deleting records to Route 53 using AWS CLI

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Note:

I verified the use of the parameter “–dns-name” in the command [aws route53 list-hosted-zones-by-name], The returned result did not meet the request. Example:

aws route53 list-hosted-zones-by-name --dns-name example.com

{
    "HostedZones": [
        {
            "Id": "/hostedzone/Z01404082JK1xxxxx",
            "Name": "dev.luvina.lixx.",
            "CallerReference": "19fc7ef0-58bb-4c14-b086-cd3c7fbbb838",
            "Config": {
                "Comment": "dev.luvina.lixx",
                "PrivateZone": false
            },
            "ResourceRecordSetCount": 14
        }
    ],
    "DNSName": "example.com",
    "IsTruncated": false,
    "MaxItems": "100" 
}

You can search for the zone ID from the host zone name by using the command [aws route53 list-hosted-zones] that specifies the parameter [–query] as shown in the sample below. [1]

Please note that you need to add [.] To the end of the domain name specified in the –query condition. Example: [example.com] → [example.com.]

Sample 1:

aws route53 list-hosted-zones --query "HostedZones[?Name=='example.com.'].Id" --output text

To register / change / delete records, please use the AWS CLI command [aws route53 change-resource-record-sets] as shown in the sample below. [2]

Sample 2:

aws route53 change-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id <YOUR_HOSTED_ZONE_ID> --change-batch file://example.json

The contents of the [example.json] file should look like this:

{
  "Comment": "optional comment about the changes in this change batch request",
  "Changes": 
  [
    {
      "Action": "CREATE",
      "ResourceRecordSet": 
      {
        "Name": "example.com",
        "Type": "A",
        "TTL": 3600,
        "ResourceRecords": 
        [
          {
            "Value": "xx.x.x.xx" 
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}