ChangeResourceRecordSets
Creates, changes, or deletes a resource record set, which contains authoritative DNS
information for a specified
domain name or subdomain name. For example, you can use ChangeResourceRecordSets to create a resource record set that
routes traffic for test.example.com to a web server that has an IP address of 192.0.2.44.
Deleting Resource Record Sets
To delete a resource record set, you must specify all the same values that you specified when you created it.
Change Batches and Transactional Changes
The request body must include a document with a ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest element.
The request body contains a list of change items, known as a change batch. Change
batches are considered transactional changes.
Route 53 validates the changes in the request and then either makes all or none
of the changes in the change batch request.
This ensures that DNS routing isn't adversely affected by partial changes to the
resource record sets in a hosted zone.
For example, suppose a change batch request contains two changes: it deletes the CNAME resource record set for www.example.com and
creates an alias resource record set for www.example.com. If validation for both
records succeeds, Route 53 deletes the first resource record set and
creates the second resource record set in a single operation. If validation for
either the DELETE or the CREATE action fails,
then the request is canceled, and the original CNAME record continues to exist.
If you try to delete the same resource record set more than once in a single change
batch, Route 53 returns an InvalidChangeBatch error.
Traffic Flow
To create resource record sets for complex routing configurations, use either the traffic flow visual editor in the Route 53 console or the API actions for traffic policies and traffic policy instances. Save the configuration as a traffic policy, then associate the traffic policy with one or more domain names (such as example.com) or subdomain names (such as www.example.com), in the same hosted zone or in multiple hosted zones. You can roll back the updates if the new configuration isn't performing as expected. For more information, see Using Traffic Flow to Route DNS Traffic in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
Create, Delete, and Upsert
Use ChangeResourceRecordsSetsRequest to perform the following actions:
-
CREATE: Creates a resource record set that has the specified values. -
DELETE: Deletes an existing resource record set that has the specified values. -
UPSERT: If a resource record set does not already exist, AWS creates it. If a resource set does exist, Route 53 updates it with the values in the request.
Syntaxes for Creating, Updating, and Deleting Resource Record Sets
The syntax for a request depends on the type of resource record set that you want to create, delete, or update, such as weighted, alias, or failover. The XML elements in your request must appear in the order listed in the syntax.
For syntax examples that show the elements for each kind of resource record set, such
as basic, weighted, and alias, see the
Examples
section of ChangeResourceRecordSets.
Don't refer to the syntax in the "Syntax" section, which includes all of the elements
for every kind of resource record set
that you can create, delete, or update by using ChangeResourceRecordSets.
Change Propagation to Route 53 DNS Servers
When you submit a ChangeResourceRecordSets request, Route 53 propagates your changes to all of the
Route 53 authoritative DNS servers. While your changes are propagating, GetChange returns a status of
PENDING. When propagation is complete, GetChange returns a status of INSYNC.
Changes generally propagate to all Route 53 name servers within 60 seconds. For
more information, see
GetChange.
Limits on ChangeResourceRecordSets Requests
For information about the limits on a ChangeResourceRecordSets request, see
Limits in the
Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
Request Syntax
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Id/rrset/ HTTP/1.1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/">
<ChangeBatch>
<Changes>
<Change>
<Action>string</Action>
<ResourceRecordSet>
<AliasTarget>
<DNSName>string</DNSName>
<EvaluateTargetHealth>boolean</EvaluateTargetHealth>
<HostedZoneId>string</HostedZoneId>
</AliasTarget>
<Failover>string</Failover>
<GeoLocation>
<ContinentCode>string</ContinentCode>
<CountryCode>string</CountryCode>
<SubdivisionCode>string</SubdivisionCode>
</GeoLocation>
<HealthCheckId>string</HealthCheckId>
<MultiValueAnswer>boolean</MultiValueAnswer>
<Name>string</Name>
<Region>string</Region>
<ResourceRecords>
<ResourceRecord>
<Value>string</Value>
</ResourceRecord>
</ResourceRecords>
<SetIdentifier>string</SetIdentifier>
<TrafficPolicyInstanceId>string</TrafficPolicyInstanceId>
<TTL>long</TTL>
<Type>string</Type>
<Weight>long</Weight>
</ResourceRecordSet>
</Change>
</Changes>
<Comment>string</Comment>
</ChangeBatch>
</ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>URI Request Parameters
The request uses the following URI parameters.
- Id
-
The ID of the hosted zone that contains the resource record sets that you want to change.
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 32.
Required: Yes
Request Body
The request accepts the following data in XML format.
- ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest
-
Root level tag for the ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest parameters.
Required: Yes
- ChangeBatch
-
A complex type that contains an optional comment and the
Changeselement.Type: ChangeBatch object
Required: Yes
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ChangeResourceRecordSetsResponse>
<ChangeInfo>
<Comment>string</Comment>
<Id>string</Id>
<Status>string</Status>
<SubmittedAt>timestamp</SubmittedAt>
</ChangeInfo>
</ChangeResourceRecordSetsResponse>Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in XML format by the service.
- ChangeResourceRecordSetsResponse
-
Root level tag for the ChangeResourceRecordSetsResponse parameters.
Required: Yes
- ChangeInfo
-
A complex type that contains information about changes made to your hosted zone.
This element contains an ID that you use when performing a GetChange action to get detailed information about the change.
Type: ChangeInfo object
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- InvalidChangeBatch
-
This exception contains a list of messages that might contain one or more error messages. Each error message indicates one error in the change batch.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- InvalidInput
-
The input is not valid.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- NoSuchHealthCheck
-
No health check exists with the specified ID.
HTTP Status Code: 404
- NoSuchHostedZone
-
No hosted zone exists with the ID that you specified.
HTTP Status Code: 404
- PriorRequestNotComplete
-
If Amazon Route 53 can't process a request before the next request arrives, it will reject subsequent requests for the same hosted zone and return an
HTTP 400 error(Bad request). If Route 53 returns this error repeatedly for the same request, we recommend that you wait, in intervals of increasing duration, before you try the request again.HTTP Status Code: 400
Examples
Basic Syntax
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <TTL>time to live in seconds</TTL> <ResourceRecords> <ResourceRecord> <Value>applicable value for the record type</Value> </ResourceRecord> ... </ResourceRecords> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Alias Resource Record Set Syntax
For information about alias resource record sets, see Choosing Between Alias and Non-Alias Resource Record Sets in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <AliasTarget> <HostedZoneId>hosted zone ID for your AWS resource or Route 53 hosted zone</HostedZoneId> <DNSName>DNS domain name for your AWS resource or another resource record set in this hosted zone</DNSName> <EvaluateTargetHealth>true | false</EvaluateTargetHealth> </AliasTarget> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Failover Syntax
For information about configuring Route 53 failover, see the following topics in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide:
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <Failover>PRIMARY | SECONDARY</Failover> <TTL>time to live in seconds</TTL> <ResourceRecords> <ResourceRecord> <Value>applicable value for the record type</Value> </ResourceRecord> ... </ResourceRecords> <HealthCheckId>ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Failover Alias Syntax
For more information, see the following topics in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide:
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <Failover>PRIMARY | SECONDARY</Failover> <AliasTarget> <HostedZoneId>hosted zone ID for your AWS resource or Route 53 hosted zone</HostedZoneId> <DNSName>DNS domain name for your AWS resource or another resource record set in this hosted zone</DNSName> <EvaluateTargetHealth>true | false</EvaluateTargetHealth> </AliasTarget> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Geolocation Syntax
For more information, see Geolocation Routing in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <GeoLocation> <ContinentCode>two-letter continent code</ContinentCode> <CountryCode>two-letter country code</CountryCode> <SubdivisionCode>subdivision code</SubdivisionCode> </GeoLocation> <TTL>time to live in seconds</TTL> <ResourceRecords> <ResourceRecord> <Value>applicable value for the record type</Value> </ResourceRecord> ... </ResourceRecords> <HealthCheckId>ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Geolocation Alias Syntax
For more information, see the following topics in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide:
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <GeoLocation> <ContinentCode>two-letter continent code</ContinentCode> <CountryCode>two-letter country code</CountryCode> <SubdivisionCode>subdivision code</SubdivisionCode> </GeoLocation> <AliasTarget> <HostedZoneId>hosted zone ID for your AWS resource or Route 53 hosted zone</HostedZoneId> <DNSName>DNS domain name for your AWS resource or another resource record set in this hosted zone</DNSName> <EvaluateTargetHealth>true | false</EvaluateTargetHealth> </AliasTarget> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Latency Resource Record Set Syntax
For information about latency resource record sets, see Latency-Based Routing in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <Region>Amazon EC2 region name</Region> <TTL>time to live in seconds</TTL> <ResourceRecords> <ResourceRecord> <Value>applicable value for the record type</Value> </ResourceRecord> ... </ResourceRecords> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Latency Alias Resource Record Set Syntax
For information about latency resource record sets, see Latency-Based Routing in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide. For information about alias resource record sets, see Choosing Between Alias and Non-Alias Resource Record Sets in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <Region>Amazon EC2 region name</Region> <AliasTarget> <HostedZoneId>hosted zone ID for your AWS resource or Route 53 hosted zone</HostedZoneId> <DNSName>DNS domain name for your AWS resource or another resource record set in this hosted zone</DNSName> <EvaluateTargetHealth>true | false</EvaluateTargetHealth> </AliasTarget> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Multivalue Answer Syntax
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <TTL>time to live in seconds</TTL> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <ResourceRecords> <ResourceRecord> <Value>applicable value for the record type</Value> </ResourceRecord> ... </ResourceRecords> <MultiValueAnswer>true</MultiValueAnswer> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Weighted Resource Record Set Syntax
For information about weighted resource record sets, see Weighted Routing in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <Weight>value between 0 and 255</Weight> <TTL>time to live in seconds</TTL> <ResourceRecords> <ResourceRecord> <Value>applicable value for the record type</Value> </ResourceRecord> ... </ResourceRecords> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
Weighted Alias Resource Record Set Syntax
For information about weighted resource record sets, see Weighted Routing in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide. For information about alias resource record sets, see Choosing Between Alias and Non-Alias Resource Record Sets in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
POST /2013-04-01/hostedzone/Route 53 hosted zone ID/rrset HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-04-01/"> <ChangeBatch> <Comment>optional comment about the changes in this change batch request</Comment> <Changes> <Change> <Action>CREATE | DELETE | UPSERT</Action> <ResourceRecordSet> <Name>fully qualified domain name</Name> <Type>DNS record type</Type> <SetIdentifier>unique description for this resource record set</SetIdentifier> <Weight>value between 0 and 255</Weight> <AliasTarget> <HostedZoneId>hosted zone ID for your AWS resource or Route 53 hosted zone</HostedZoneId> <DNSName>DNS domain name for your AWS resource or another resource record set in this hosted zone</DNSName> <EvaluateTargetHealth>true | false</EvaluateTargetHealth> </AliasTarget> <HealthCheckId>optional ID of a Route 53 health check</HealthCheckId> </ResourceRecordSet> </Change> ... </Changes> </ChangeBatch> </ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
