Working with hosted zones
A hosted zone is a container for records, and records contain information about how you want to route traffic for a specific domain, such as example.com, and its subdomains (acme.example.com, zenith.example.com). A hosted zone and the corresponding domain have the same name. There are two types of hosted zones:
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.