The procedure shall involve following steps:

  • Create NS record on the parent domain hosted zone

In this example, we use as parent hosted zone.

You want to keep those parent domain hosted zone records, so now lets create the subdomain.

Create Hosted zone

Fill up the box with your subdomain : k8s.example.com

Route 53 should generate your NS server like below in subdomain management console:

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:

  1. ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  2. k8s.example.com.        172800    IN    NS    ns-75.awsdns-04.org.
  3. k8s.example.com.        172800    IN    NS    ns-1022.awsdns-35.com.