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Registering a Domain through Route 53

Explore the process of registering a custom domain using AWS Route 53. Understand setting up permissions, searching for unique domains, providing contact details, and completing domain registration to go live with your WordPress site. This lesson equips you with the essential steps for managing domains using AWS tools.

This part of the course uses AWS resources that do not offer a free tier. The part is therefore optional to complete the course, and you are free to just read along. If you are planning on setting up a real WordPress-based website on AWS, this chapter gives you the hands-on experience you need.

Updating permissions

As usual, we need to add additional permissions to manage Route 53 based services through the CLI.

You should be familiar with the process by now. You guessed it! We add the AmazonRoute53FullAccess policy to the wordpressadmins group

Note: To do so, please log into your AWS account with the root user. You can reach the wordpressadmins group permissions page directly via this link: ...