title: Point domain to Route 53
body: <p>I'm having issues to point a domain to a new server.</p>
  
  <p>Currently our application is hosted in Google Clould.</p>
  
  <p>We have a domain that is pointed to the public IP address of the Google Cloud instance and there is no other Google Cloud name servers attached to it. In our domain manager, we only have something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>domain.com     A       &lt;google-cloud-ip-address&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>We're moving this app to an AWS Beanstalk environment and these are the steps we did:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Setup the app in an AWS Beanstalk Environment</li>
  <li>Create a Hosted Zone in Route 53</li>
  <li>Add an <code>A</code> Record Set with an Alias pointing to the Beanstalk application</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This is what we have in Route 53 now:</p>
  
  <pre><code>domain.com     A       ALIAS application-domain.beanstalk.com
  domain.com     NS      nameserver1.aws.com, nameserverN.aws.com ...
  domain.com     SOA     ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Route 53 only gives me name servers, but the domain is currently pointed to an IP address, how should I proceed in this case to point the domain to Route 53, since I don't have any public IP addresses to replace it on my domain manager?</p>
  
  <p>What I tried to do is: remove the current IP record from the domain manager and add all the AWS name servers but that didn't work.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone had this experience and could share something with me?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>