A company hosts its website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company manages its DNS with Amazon Route 53 and wants to point its domain's zone apex to the website…

The correct answer is D. An alias record for the domain's zone apex. Route 53 supports redirection of zone apex to the ALB via alias. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resource-record-sets-choosing- alias-non-alias.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-elb-load-balancer.html

Submitted by manish99· Mar 30, 2026Networking and Content Delivery

Question

A company hosts its website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company manages its DNS with Amazon Route 53 and wants to point its domain's zone apex to the website. Which type of record should be used to meet these requirements?

Options

AAn AAAA record for the domain's zone apex
BAn A record for the domain's zone apex
CA CNAME record for the domain's zone apex
DAn alias record for the domain's zone apex

How the community answered

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A
5% (3)
B
2% (1)
C
9% (5)
D
84% (48)

Explanation

Route 53 supports redirection of zone apex to the ALB via alias. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resource-record-sets-choosing- alias-non-alias.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-elb-load-balancer.html

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#Route 53#alias record#zone apex#DNS

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