EC2 + Route53 for Dynamic DNS

1 · Michael Staszel · March 12, 2016, 3:28 p.m.
Recently I ran into a problem while working with Amazon EC2 servers. Servers without dedicated elastic IP addresses would get a different IP address every time they were started up! This proved to be a challenge when trying to SSH in to the servers. How can I have a dynamic domain name that always points to my EC2 server? Amazon’s Route53 came to mind. Route53, however, does not have a simple way to point a subdomain directly to an EC2 instance....