The Update Route 53 Record action will update a record in a Route 53 Hosted Zone with information sourced from an EC2 instance. An A record can be created based on an EC2 instance's public IP address, or a CNAME record can be created based on an EC2 instance's public DNS name.

Depending on your requirements, this action could be used as a substitute for elastic IP addresses.

Please see Common Action Settings for a description of settings common to all action types.

Hosted Zone

Name of the hosted zone that contains the record to update.

Record Name

Name of the record to update.

Record Type

Select either A or CNAME.

Instance ID

Indicate the instance id of your EC2 instance. This value usually looks like "i-84a3dc7b". This instance must reside in the region specified.

The following Amazon AWS commands are used. The access key should have permission to execute all of them.