Getting started with VPC Resolver on Amazon Outposts - Amazon Route 53
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Getting started with VPC Resolver on Amazon Outposts

After you have ordered your Amazon Outposts racks and they have been delivered, as described here: Create an Amazon Outposts in the Amazon Outposts guide, you can set up Resolver on Outpost.

Important

Resolver on Outpost can only be created by the Amazon account that owns the Amazon Outposts rack. If the Amazon Outposts rack is shared with other accounts, those accounts cannot create Resolver on Outpost on the shared rack.

You can also use APIs to manage Route 53 on Outposts. For more information, see Resolver on Outpost actions.

Important

It can take up to 30-150 minutes to create a VPC Resolver cache on an Amazon Outposts.

After you have your Amazon Outposts racks delivered, you can opt in to Route 53 on Outposts.

To configure Resolver on Outpost

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Route 53 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, expand Resolver, and then navigate to Outposts.

  3. On the navigation bar, choose the Region where your Amazon Outposts is located.

  4. On the Resolver on Outpost page, choose Create VPC Resolver.

  5. On the Create VPC Resolver page:

    • Under Amazon Outposts select an Amazon Outposts you want to create the VPC Resolver on.

    • Type in a name for the VPC Resolver in the VPC Resolver name text box.

    • After the Recommended instance types for VPC Resolver populates with Amazon EC2 instances, choose one.

      For more information about the instance types, see Quotas on Resolver on Outpost.

    • For Number of instances, choose the number of elastic interface instances for the VPC VPC Resolver. The default value is 4.

      If your Amazon Outposts doesn't have an instance type that supports VPC Resolver, you won't be able to create a VPC Resolver.

  6. Choose Create VPC Resolver.

    You can monitor the VPC Resolver creation on the Resolver on Outpost page.