Working with hosted zones
A hosted zone is a container for records. Records hold information about how to route traffic for a domain, such as example.com, and its subdomains (acme.example.com, zenith.example.com). A hosted zone has the same name as its domain. There are two types:
Public hosted zones contain records that specify how you want to route traffic on the internet. For more information, see Working with public hosted zones.
Private hosted zones contain records that specify how you want to route traffic in an Amazon VPC. For more information, see Working with private hosted zones.