Update your Lightsail domain name servers to use another DNS service
You can use an Amazon Lightsail DNS zone to manage the DNS records for a domain that you registered using Lightsail. Or, if you'd like, you can transfer management of DNS records for the domain to another DNS hosting provider. In this guide, we show you how to transfer management of DNS records for a domain you registered with Lightsail to another DNS hosting provider.
Important
Any changes you make to the DNS of your domain might require several hours to propagate through the internet’s DNS. Because of this, you should keep the DNS records of your domain in place at your current DNS hosting provider until the transfer of management is done. This ensures that traffic for your domain continues to route to your resources uninterrupted while the transfer takes place.
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Complete the prerequisites
Complete the following prerequisites if you haven’t already done so:
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Register a domain name. You can register a domain name using Lightsail. For more information, see Register a new domain.
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Use the process that’s provided by your DNS service to get the name servers for your domain.
Add records to the DNS zone
Complete the following procedure to add the name servers for another DNS hosting provider into your registered domain in Lightsail.
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Sign in to the Lightsail console
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Choose the Domains & DNS tab.
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Choose the name of the domain that you want to configure to use another DNS service.
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Choose Edit Name Servers.
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Change the names of the name servers to the name servers that you got from your DNS service when you completed the prerequisites.
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Choose Save.
