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Route 53

Public + private hosted zones, record sets, traffic policies, health checks, DNSSEC (metadata).

Query (Action parameter) multi-tenant 3 operations

Quick start

import boto3
r53 = boto3.client("route53", endpoint_url="http://localhost:4566",
                   region_name="us-east-1",
                   aws_access_key_id="test", aws_secret_access_key="test")
zone = r53.create_hosted_zone(Name="example.internal",
    CallerReference="1")["HostedZone"]["Id"]
r53.change_resource_record_sets(HostedZoneId=zone,
    ChangeBatch={"Changes":[{"Action":"CREATE",
        "ResourceRecordSet":{"Name":"api.example.internal","Type":"A",
            "TTL":60,"ResourceRecords":[{"Value":"10.0.0.1"}]}}]})

Supported operations

3 operations exposed by this service as of MiniStack 1.3.14. Extracted directly from the handler dispatch in the source module.

CREATE DELETE UPSERT

CloudFormation

The CloudFormation engine provisions these resource types via this service:

AWS::Route53::HostedZone AWS::Route53::RecordSet

See CloudFormation engine for intrinsic support and lifecycle details.

Known limitations

  • Changes are visible inside MiniStack only — your host resolver is unaffected.
  • Health checks are stored but status is never updated.
  • DNSSEC operations are metadata only.

Source

  • ministack/services/route53.py:618-634

Read the source to verify the ops list above — dispatch tables and handler functions are the ground truth.