Gatsby Cloud requires that domains have two custom A records, and one CNAME record.

However, AWS does not let me add CNAME records to a domain. I have done extensive research, but have found only dead-ends. Can I do anything to make this work or do I have to transfer to another domain service?

The domain is registered with Route 53, and has it's own Hosted Zone.

Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

"AWS does not let me add CNAME records to a domain." is completely false. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/ResourceRecordTypes.html

AWS doesn't allow you to create CNAME records for apex domain names, only subdomains, but that is a limitation of the DNS protocol, not AWS, and you are going to run into the same issue with other DNS providers.

Looking at the Gatsby Cloud DNS documentation, they want you to create two A records if you are using a custom apex domain. Otherwise, if you are using a subdomain they want you to create a single CNAME record. So your statement that they want you to create both CNAME and A records is not true.