Using Amazon EC2 with Hover.com
amazon-ec2, amazon-web-services, dns
Solution
There are a few ways to do this, the simplest is pointing the domains A record to an IP address that is associated with an instance. So:
- Go to EC2 dashboard
- Create an Elastic IP
- Point the A record to this Elastic IP
- Associate the Elastic IP to an instance.
This link http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1346 should help although it is using the command line tools. The steps above are for the GUI.
The other method is to use Route 53 - this guide helped me out http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/R53Example.html
Problem
I have a domain name registered with Hover.com and I'd like to use it to point to an Amazon EC2 Instance. I can't seem to figure out the proper way to do this, despite my Google-fu. If anyone has had some experience with using these two services together, some advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!