How to set up multitenant Route53 subdomains with parent domain not on Route53?

Solution 1:

In order to do this, you will need an NS record on the zone hosted at DnsMadeEasy for each subdomain. This action is called "delegating a subdomain" to an external DNS server. Here's the DNS Made Easy guide for that.

For instance, you would need an NS record in the parent zone for: tenant1.example.com, which points to the four namserver addresses assigned to you when you create a tenant1.example.com hosted zone in Amazon Route 53.

Create your hosted subdomains in Amazon Route 53:

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Then make sure DNS Made Easy has an entry like this for each subdomain:

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