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Day 10: Get your custom domain (real URLs)

ยท 23 min read
Norah Klintberg Sakal
AI Consultant & Developer

Get your custom domain (real URLs)

What you'll learn

How to set up a custom domain with Route 53 and point it to your Application Load Balancer.

No more default URLsโ€‹

Day 9: You built the front-yard house (ALB)

Today: We give it a real address

Here's the situation: Your ALB has a public endpoint:

fargate-alb-1234567890.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com

This works, but:
โŒ Impossible to remember
โŒ Looks unprofessional
โŒ Hard to share
โŒ Can't use for SSL certificate (Day 11)

What you want:

ai-caller.yourdomain.com

Clean. Professional. Memorable.

Solution: Route 53 + Custom Domain