: How do I add both a CNAME and an A record to Route 53 to use my blog with Pressable? I'm also aware that I'm unable to have a CNAME as the domains root under the ruling 3.6.2 of RFC

I'm also aware that I'm unable to have a CNAME as the domains root under the ruling 3.6.2 of RFC 1034 as in this post.

I'm trying to add an external blog hosting service. So I have my domain at example.com. I want to add a sub-domain called: blog.example.com

The external blog hosting service (Pressable) asks me to add an A record, no problem but they also want a CNAME: blah.openhostingservice.com.

Of course trying to do that just yields this in Route 53:

RRSet of type CNAME with DNS name blog.example.com. is not permitted as it conflicts with other records with the same DNS name in zone example.com.

How can I add this CNAME?

Update: The message from Pressable

To launch your site you need to do the following:

Point your domain to pressable

Want to MANAGE YOUR OWN domain settings?

Point your A record to xx.xx.xx.xx

AND

Change your CNAME
www to yyy.xyz.com

Add the domain you want to use below

Where xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP and yyy.xyz.com is the url they provide. Step 2 is just the spot to let them know the sub-domain I selected.

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@Jessie594

The issue here is that you are trying to create two separate DNS entries for the same FQDN. From reading your question several times what I gather is that the instructions you are reviewing are working on the basis that both the zone apex (domain.com) and the standard DNS (www.domain.com) both need to connect to the Blog service. In this case you would create an A record at the zone apex with the IP address they provide and a CNAME record for www to the zone apex.

IE:

IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
www IN CNAME domain.com

What you are trying to do though is direct blog.example.com to the third party provider while keeping the zone apex pointed to your own server so what you could here would be...

IN A {YOUR IP}
www IN CNAME domain.com
blog IN CNAME provider.domain-name..com

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