AWS CLI Command Reference

[ aws . route53 ]

create-resource-record-set-protections

Description

Creates one or more resource record set protections in a hosted zone. A protection applies to every resource record set in the hosted zone that has the specified name and type. While a protection exists, Route 53 rejects any ChangeResourceRecordSets request that creates, updates, or deletes a resource record set with that name and type, and returns an InvalidChangeBatch error. To change a protected resource record set, first delete its protection by using DeleteResourceRecordSetProtections .

You can create a protection for a name and type that doesn’t have a resource record set yet. In that case, Route 53 also rejects requests to create that resource record set.

You can’t delete a hosted zone that has protections. To delete the hosted zone, first delete all of its protections by using DeleteResourceRecordSetProtections .

The request is atomic. Route 53 either creates all of the protections in the request or none of them. If one or more entries fail, the response is an error that lists the failing entries and the reason that each one failed. Route 53 checks for invalid entries before it checks for existing protections, so if any entry is invalid, the error lists only the invalid entries.

The error that Route 53 returns depends on the failures:

  • If every entry already has a protection, Route 53 returns a ProtectionAlreadyExists error.
  • For any other combination of failures, Route 53 returns an InvalidResourceRecordSetProtectionBatch error.

You can specify up to 100 protections in one request. The number of protections that you can have in a hosted zone is limited by a quota. If the request would exceed that quota, Route 53 returns a LimitsExceeded error.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  create-resource-record-set-protections
--hosted-zone-id <value>
--protections <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]
[--cli-error-format <value>]
[--help]

Options

--hosted-zone-id (string) [required]

The ID of the hosted zone that contains the resource record sets that you want to protect.

Constraints:

  • max: 32

--protections (list) [required]

The protections to create. Each entry specifies a resource record set name and type, and an optional comment. The list must contain at least one entry and can contain up to 100 entries. Each name and type can appear only once in the list.

Constraints:

  • min: 1

(structure)

A protection to create for the resource record sets in a hosted zone that have the specified name and type.

RecordName -> (string) [required]

The name of the resource record sets to protect, for example, www.example.com . The name must be the name of the hosted zone or a subdomain of it.

Constraints:

  • max: 1024

RecordType -> (string) [required]

The DNS record type of the resource record sets to protect. You can’t protect records of type DNAME or of the DNSSEC record types that Route 53 manages.

Possible values:

  • SOA
  • A
  • TXT
  • NS
  • CNAME
  • MX
  • NAPTR
  • PTR
  • SRV
  • SPF
  • AAAA
  • CAA
  • DS
  • TLSA
  • SSHFP
  • SVCB
  • HTTPS

Comment -> (string)

An optional comment about the protection, for example, the reason that the resource record sets are protected. The comment can be up to 256 characters long. If you don’t specify a comment, the protection doesn’t have a comment. When Route 53 rejects a ChangeResourceRecordSets request because of this protection, the error message includes the comment, so don’t include sensitive information.

Constraints:

  • max: 256

Shorthand Syntax:

RecordName=string,RecordType=string,Comment=string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "RecordName": "string",
    "RecordType": "SOA"|"A"|"TXT"|"NS"|"CNAME"|"MX"|"NAPTR"|"PTR"|"SRV"|"SPF"|"AAAA"|"CAA"|"DS"|"TLSA"|"SSHFP"|"SVCB"|"HTTPS",
    "Comment": "string"
  }
  ...
]

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json
  • text
  • table
  • yaml
  • yaml-stream
  • off

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on
  • off
  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

  • base64
  • raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--cli-error-format (string)

The formatting style for error output. By default, errors are displayed in enhanced format.

  • legacy
  • json
  • yaml
  • text
  • table
  • enhanced

--help (boolean)

Display help for the command/subcommand.

Output

None

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