Creating a Public Hosted Zone
A public hosted zone is a container that holds information about how you want to route traffic on the internet for a specific domain, such as example.com, and its subdomains (apex.example.com, acme.example.com). After you create a hosted zone, you create records that specify how you want to route traffic for the domain and subdomains.
To create a hosted zone using the Route 53 console
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.
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If you're new to Route 53, choose Get Started Now under DNS Management.
If you're already using Route 53, choose Hosted zones in the navigation pane.
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Choose Create Hosted Zone.
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In the Create Hosted Zone pane, type the name of the domain that you want to route traffic for. You can also optionally type a comment.
For information about how to specify characters other than a-z, 0-9, and - (hyphen) and how to specify internationalized domain names, see DNS Domain Name Format.
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For Type, accept the default value of Public Hosted Zone.
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Choose Create.
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Create records that specify how you want to route traffic for the domain and subdomains. For more information, see Working with Records.