: Cannot forward root domain managed by Google Domains to AWS Load Balancer My domains are managed on Google but my site is hosted on AWS. I want to point both my root my-company.com and the

@Odierno851

This is a limitation in the fundamental design of DNS itself. Adding a CNAME at the apex of a domain is essentially invalid because it leads to an illogical set of consequences.

This is why Route 53 created A-Record Aliases -- to work around exactly this issue. Instead of an external referral, like a CNAME does, Alias records are an internal referral -- Route 53 looks up the record using an internal lookup from its own database, returning what is essentially a dynamically populated A record.

One option is to use a service like wwwizer.com, which gives you an A record for your example.com that simply returns a redirect to example.com. (To be clear, this isn't a recommendation or endorsement; I have no affiliation with this service and don't use it, but have seen it mentioned in this context.) The www record, of course, works fine with a CNAME.

Another option is to move the hosting of your DNS to Route 53 but not the domain registration. If your domain is registered with Google, you can retain the registration there, but host the records on Route 53... but this is not done by creating NS records. The process appears to be documented here.

The cost of Route 53 seems low enough to consider insignificant in this configuration, since they don't bill you for DNS queries that reach Alias records, when the Alias record terminates on ELB, CloudFront, or S3.

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