Network engineers and cloud administrators need an efficient and simple way to add Domain Name System (DNS) records to private hosted zones in Amazon Route 53. Using a manual approach to copy entries from a Microsoft Excel worksheet to appropriate locations in the Route 53 console is tedious and error prone. This pattern describes an automated approach that reduces the time and effort required to add multiple records. It also provides a repeatable set of steps for multiple hosted zone creation.
This pattern uses the AWS Cloud9 integrated development environment (IDE) for development and testing, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store records. To work with data efficiently, the pattern uses the JSON format because of its simplicity and its ability to support a Python dictionary (dict data type).
