Site not found - AWS Route 53, google domain and G Suite Email

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I bought a domain with google. I want to use google email suite. I hop onto AWS, create a static hosting bucket (and www bucket for redirect), create a zone in route 53, update the A records. Go back to google domain and update the NS values to what is in route 53. All is swell, site pulled up with a simple index.html within the bucket and I was able to email/email forwarding worked .. then google gives me an issue

"It looks like you've changed your name servers. All settings for your domain (including website, email, synthetic records and resource records) are currently disabled. To enable these settings, you will need to restore the Google Domains name servers."

In turn I tried to fix this issue by adding the MX records from google domains to my route 53 zone, but it doesn't look to have resolved my issue.

When I check my NS records on https://www.whatsmydns.net/ they are the same as Route 53. I am not sure what to try next.

Status: my site now cannot be reached, emailing/email forwarding does work

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1 Answers

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Two have two options:

  1. Use the same domain for both your email and your website. This means if you want to keep using a static bucket you MUST use Route53 for the NameServers for that domain. The proper way (as you've found) is to host the domain in Route53 and make the appropriate email-related entries (MX, etc) pointing to the correct values at Google.
  2. Separate your email domain and your website domain. You could do this (for example) by keeping example.com in Google DNS with it's MX records and everything, then creating a "www" subdomain with NS records pointing to Route53. Your Route53 hosted zone would be www.example.com and your website would NOT be accessible from example.com.

I highly suggest going with #1 as you've attempted but take the time to get Google Apps working with the Route53 records.

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