Routing traffic to Amazon WorkMail - Amazon Route 53

Routing traffic to Amazon WorkMail

You can use Route 53 to route traffic to your Amazon WorkMail email domain. The name of your Route 53 hosted zone (such as example.com) must match the name of an Amazon WorkMail domain.

Note

You can route traffic to an Amazon WorkMail domain only for public hosted zones.

To route traffic to Amazon WorkMail, perform the following four procedures.

To configure Amazon Route 53 as your DNS service and add an Amazon WorkMail organization and email domain

  1. If you haven't registered the domain name that you want to use in your email addresses (such as john@example.com), register the domain now so you know that the domain is available. For more information, see Registering a new domain.

    If Amazon Route 53 is not the DNS service for the email domain that you added to Amazon WorkMail, migrate DNS service for the domain to Route 53. For more information, see Making Amazon Route 53 the DNS service for an existing domain.

  2. Add an Amazon WorkMail organization and email domain. For more information, see Getting started for new users in the Amazon WorkMail Administrator Guide.

To create a Route 53 TXT record for Amazon WorkMail

  1. In the navigation pane of the Amazon WorkMail console, choose Domains.

  2. Choose the name of the email domain, such as example.com that you want to use to route traffic to Amazon WorkMail.

  3. Open another browser tab, and open the Route 53 console.

  4. In the Route 53 console, do the following:

    1. In the navigation pane, choose Hosted zones.

    2. Choose the name of the hosted zone that you want to use for your Amazon WorkMail email domain.

  5. In the Amazon WorkMail console, in the section Step 1: Verify domain ownership, go to the Hostname column, and copy the part of the value that precedes your email domain name.

    For example, if your Amazon WorkMail email domain is example.com and the value of Hostname is _amazonses.example.com, copy _amazonses.

  6. In the Route 53 console, do the following:

    1. Choose Create record, and choose Simple routing.

    2. For Record name, paste the value that you copied in step 5.

    3. For Record type, choose TXT – Text.

  7. In the Amazon WorkMail console, for the TXT record, copy the value of the Value column, including the quotation marks.

  8. In the Route 53 console, do the following:

    1. For Value/Route traffic to, choose IP address or another value depending on the record type, and paste the value that you copied in step 7.

      Don't change any other settings.

    2. Choose Create.

To create a Route 53 MX record for Amazon WorkMail

  1. In the Amazon WorkMail console, in the section Step 2: Finalize domain setup, go to the row that has a Record type of MX, and copy the value of the Value column.

  2. In the Route 53 console, do the following:

    1. Choose Create record.

    2. For Value/Route traffic to, choose IP address or another value depending on the record type, and paste the value that you copied in step 1.

    3. For Record type, choose MX – Mail Exchange.

      Don't change any other settings.

    4. Choose Create records.

To create four Route 53 CNAME records for Amazon WorkMail

  1. In the Amazon WorkMail console, in the section Step 2: Finalize domain setup, go to the first row that has a Record type of CNAME. In the Hostname column, copy the part of the value that precedes your email domain name.

    For example, if your Amazon WorkMail email domain is example.com and the value of Hostname is autodiscover.example.com, copy autodiscover.

  2. In the Route 53 console, do the following:

    1. Choose Create record.

    2. For Record name, paste the value that you copied in step 1.

    3. For Record type, choose CNAME – Canonical Name.

  3. In the Amazon WorkMail console, in the first row that has a Record type of CNAME, copy the value of the Value column.

  4. In the Route 53 console, do the following:

    1. For Value/Route traffic to, choose IP address or another value depending on the record type, and paste the value that you copied in step 3.

      Don't change any other settings.

    2. Choose Create records.

  5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 for the remaining CNAME records that are listed in the Amazon WorkMail console.