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Email DNS records at Amazon Route 53

AWS's DNS service. Records live in a hosted zone; several values for one name share a single record.

Visit Amazon Route 53 Sources checked October 21, 2026

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Open the Route 53 console and select Registered domains, then your domain.
Select Manage DNS, then the hosted zone for your domain. If no hosted zone exists, create one first.

Record	Host field	Value field
MX	Record name	Value (priority first, then the server)
TXT	Record name	Value
CNAME	Record name	Value

For your bare domain, leave Record name empty.
Wrap TXT values in double quotes.
For other names, type only the part before your domain (for example _dmarc). Amazon Route 53 adds your domain automatically.

In the hosted zone, select Create record.
Leave Record name empty, choose MX as Record type, and keep Simple routing.
In Value, enter the priority, a space, then the mail server (for example 10 mail.example.com). Put each mail server on its own line in the same record.
Select Create records, then delete any older MX records.

Select Create record.
Enter the Record name (leave it empty for your bare domain) and choose TXT.
In Value, enter the text inside double quotes. If you already have a TXT record on that name, add the new value as another line in the same record.
Select Create records.

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