Using ALIAS for ELB if main website DNS manager is not Route 53
问题 I use Netlify to host my static site example.com . Since I don't want to append www , I have to use Netlify's DNS nameservers. example.com uses API backend api.example.com , which is a CNAME record that resolves to an ELB address *.elb.amazonaws.com . So 2 DNS lookup is required: first to example.com then to *.elb.amazonaws.com . Alternative: Setup Route 53 with another custom domain example.org with an ALIAS record api.example.org that points to *.elb.amazonaws.com , and use api.example.org