## Creating a Subdomain That Uses Amazon Route 53 as the DNS Service without Migrating the Parent Domain
You can create a subdomain that uses Amazon Route 53 as the DNS service without migrating the parent domain from another DNS service. The procedure shall involve following steps: - Create subdomain hosted zone - Create NS record on the parent domain hosted zone In this example, we use `example.com` as parent hosted zone. ## Create Subdomain You want to keep those parent domain hosted zone records, so now lets create the subdomain. On your `route 53` create the subdomain : `Create Hosted zone` Fill up the box `Domain Name:` with your subdomain : k8s.example.com `Route 53` should generate your NS server like below in subdomain management console: ``` ns-613.awsdns-13.net. ns-75.awsdns-04.com. ns-1022.awsdns-35.co.uk. ns-1149.awsdns-27.org. ``` Take note on these records. ## Create NS record on Parent domain hosted zone Add / Create a NS record on the parent domain hosted zone with previous noted subdomain NS server records via parent domain management console. After done, the result should like this from cli: >dig ns k8s.example.com ``` ;; ANSWER SECTION: k8s.example.com. 172800 IN NS ns-613.awsdns-13.net. k8s.example.com. 172800 IN NS ns-75.awsdns-04.org. k8s.example.com. 172800 IN NS ns-1022.awsdns-35.com. k8s.example.com. 172800 IN NS ns-1149.awsdns-27.co.uk. ``` Wait until the NS replication is ok