There are two simple steps to point a GoDaddy domain to an EC2 instance — create an elastic IP for that EC2 instance you are integrating, and connect the elastic IP to your domain.
Create an elastic IP for the EC2 instance you are integrating.
- Click Allocate a new address on the Elastic IPs page.
- Then, click Allocate on the next page.
- Right-click the row of the newly created elastic IP, and click Associate address.
- Choose the EC2 instance you are integrating.
- Connect the elastic IP to your domain.
Go to GoDaddy’s Domain Manager.
- Go to the Manage DNS of the domain you are integrating.
- Replace the Value of record with Type A with the elastic IP you just created.
- Wait for changes to reflect (This takes at least 600 seconds to reflect, depending on the TTL you specified).
- To check if successful, the domain should now load the EC2 instance you pointed it too.
Writer: Ravinder Singh
Full Stack Developer
I have 15+ years of experience in commercial software development. I write this blog as a kind of knowledge base for myself. When I read about something interesting or learn anything I will write about it. I think when writing about a topic you concentrate more and therefore have better study results. The second reason why I write this blog is, that I love teaching and I hope that people find their way on here and can benefit from my content.