Route 53 Hosted Zones
What does zop.dev create for Route 53 Hosted Zones?
zop.dev creates a Route 53 hosted zone for each cluster you give a domain, named after the cluster under that domain, plus a wildcard CNAME with a 300-second TTL pointing at the cluster's ingress load balancer. Delegating the zone from your registrar or parent zone is up to you. Route 53 bills 0.50 USD per hosted zone per month.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Cloud | aws |
Amazon Route 53 hosts the DNS zones that route traffic to your environments. When you give a cluster a domain, zop.dev creates a zone for that cluster and points it at the cluster’s ingress.
A hosted zone with one wildcard record
A hosted zone named after the cluster under your domain, and a wildcard CNAME for every name in it pointing at the cluster’s ingress load balancer.
Zone name comes from the cluster and your domain
Zone: <cluster>.<domain>; record: *.<cluster>.<domain> CNAME to the ingress load balancer, TTL 300.Delegation is yours to add
zop.dev writes no NS delegation records anywhere. Until you add the zone’s NS records at your registrar or in the parent zone, names in the new zone do not resolve publicly. When DNS misbehaves for an environment, check the delegation first, then the zone itself.
DNS never blocks the cluster
If zone creation fails, the DNS step is skipped and the cluster comes up without DNS. If the ingress load balancer has no address yet, zop.dev creates the zone without the wildcard record. zop.dev adds no CAA records, so any certificate authority your issuer uses can issue for names in the zone.
The meter on a zone
A hosted zone bills 0.50 USD per month plus per-query charges (trivial for one zone, worth watching once every environment carries its own). The sharper issue with stale zones is not cost but correctness: a zone left behind by a deleted environment keeps resolving, and dangling records pointing at released load balancers or IPs are a well-documented takeover surface. Tearing down an environment should include its zone and its delegation records, in that order.