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AWS Route53 documentation change

Service: Route53 · 2025-05-01 · Documentation low

File: Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-cloudfront-distribution.md

Summary

Updated CloudFront routing documentation to include distribution tenants and modified console steps

Security assessment

The changes introduce support for CloudFront distribution tenants and update procedural steps, but there is no evidence of security vulnerability fixes or security feature documentation. The modifications appear to reflect product capability updates rather than security improvements.

Diff

diff --git a/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-cloudfront-distribution.md b/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-cloudfront-distribution.md
index b870a6b47..8ccc60a4d 100644
--- a//Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-cloudfront-distribution.md
+++ b//Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-cloudfront-distribution.md
@@ -45 +45 @@ For information about using Route 53 as the DNS service provider for your domain
-  4. A CloudFront distribution. The distribution must include an alternate domain name that matches the domain name that you want to use for your URLs instead of the domain name that CloudFront assigned to your distribution.
+  4. A CloudFront distribution or a CloudFront distribution tenant. The distribution must include an alternate domain name that matches the domain name that you want to use for your URLs instead of the domain name that CloudFront assigned to your distribution. For a CloudFront distribution tenant, it must contain the domain name that you want to use for your URLs.
@@ -80 +80 @@ For more information, see [Enable IPv6](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudF
-  2. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Route 53 console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/).
+  2. For a CloudFront distribution tenant,
@@ -82 +82 @@ For more information, see [Enable IPv6](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudF
-  3. In the navigation pane, choose **Hosted zones**.
+    1. Choose **SaaS** in the left nav, then **Distribution tenants** , and choose the distribution tenant with the domain name that you want to route traffic to
@@ -84 +84 @@ For more information, see [Enable IPv6](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudF
-  4. Choose the linked name of the hosted zone for the domain that you want to use to route traffic to your CloudFront distribution.
+    2. in the **General details** section, copy the value of the **Endpoint**.
@@ -86 +86,7 @@ For more information, see [Enable IPv6](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudF
-  5. Choose **Create record**.
+  3. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Route 53 console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/).
+
+  4. In the navigation pane, choose **Hosted zones**.
+
+  5. Choose the linked name of the hosted zone for the domain that you want to use to route traffic to your CloudFront distribution.
+
+  6. Choose **Create record**.
@@ -90 +96 @@ You can use the wizard to create the records or choose **Switch to quick create*
-  6. Specify the following values:
+  7. Specify the following values:
@@ -117,0 +124,2 @@ Choose **Alias to CloudFront distributions**. The us-east-1 Region is selected b
+For a CloudFront distribution tenant, choose the endpoint from step 2.
+
@@ -130 +138 @@ Accept the default value of **No**.
-  7. Choose **Create records**.
+  8. Choose **Create records**.
@@ -132 +140 @@ Accept the default value of **No**.
-  8. If IPv6 is enabled for the distribution, repeat steps 5 through 7. Specify the same settings except for the **Record type** field, as explained in step 6.
+  9. If IPv6 is enabled for the distribution, repeat steps 5 through 7. Specify the same settings except for the **Record type** field, as explained in step 6.