Set up a Regional custom domain name in API Gateway - Amazon API Gateway
ConsiderationsCreate a Regional custom domain name Create a DNS record for your Regional custom domain name Create a base path mapping for your Regional custom domain name

Set up a Regional custom domain name in API Gateway

Use a Regional custom domain name to create a user-friendly API base URL. With a Regional custom domain name, you can map HTTP and REST API stages to the same custom domain name and use mutual TLS authentication.

Considerations

The following are considerations for your Regional custom domain name.

  • You must provide a Region-specific ACM certificate. This certificate must be in the same Region as your API. For more information about creating or uploading a custom domain name certificate, see Get certificates ready in AWS Certificate Manager.

  • When you create a Regional custom domain name (or migrate one) with an ACM certificate, API Gateway creates a service-linked role in your account. The service-linked role is required to attach your ACM certificate to your Regional endpoint. The role is named AWSServiceRoleForAPIGateway and will have the APIGatewayServiceRolePolicy managed policy attached to it. For more information about use of the service-linked role, see Using Service-Linked Roles.

  • After your create your Regional custom domain name, you must create an "A" type DNS record to point the custom domain name to the Regional domain name. This enables the traffic that is bound to the custom domain name to be routed to the API's Regional hostname.

Create a Regional custom domain name

The following procedure shows how to create a Regional custom domain name. After you complete this procedure, you must create a DNS record to point the custom domain name to the Regional domain name.

AWS Management Console

  1. Sign in to the API Gateway console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/apigateway.

  2. Choose Custom domain names from the main navigation pane.

  3. Choose Add domain name.

  4. For Domain name, enter a domain name.

  5. For API endpoint type, choose Regional (recommended).

  6. Choose a minimum TLS version.

  7. Choose a mutual TLS setting.

  8. Choose an ACM certificate. The certificate must be in the same Region as the API.

  9. Choose Add domain name.

AWS CLI

The following create-domain-name command can be used to create a custom domain name:

aws apigatewayv2 create-domain-name \ 
    --domain-name 'regional.example.com' \
    --domain-name-configurations CertificateArn=arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:123456789012:certificate/123456789012-1234-1234-1234-12345678

If successful, the call returns a result similar to the following:

{
    "ApiMappingSelectionExpression": "$request.basepath",
    "DomainName": "regional.example.com",
    "DomainNameConfigurations": [
        {
            "ApiGatewayDomainName": "d-numh1z56v6.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",
            "CertificateArn": "arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:123456789012:certificate/123456789012-1234-1234-1234-12345678",
            "DomainNameStatus": "AVAILABLE",
            "EndpointType": "REGIONAL",
            "HostedZoneId": "Z2OJLYMUO9EFXC",
            "SecurityPolicy": "TLS_1_2"
        }
    ]
}

The DomainNameConfigurations property value returns the Regional API's hostname. You must create a DNS record to point your custom domain name to this Regional domain name. This enables the traffic that is bound to the custom domain name to be routed to this Regional API's hostname.

Create a DNS record for your Regional custom domain name

The following procedure shows how to create a DNS record to point your custom domain name your newly created Regional domain name.

AWS Management Console

To use the AWS Management Console, follow the Route 53 documentation on configuring Route 53 to route traffic to API Gateway.

AWS CLI

To configure your DNS records to map the Regional custom domain name to its hostname of the given hosted zone ID, first create a JSON file that contains the configuration for setting up a DNS record for the Regional domain name.

The following setup-dns-record.json shows how to create a DNS A record to map a Regional custom domain name (regional.example.com) to its Regional hostname (d-numh1z56v6.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com) provisioned as part of the custom domain name creation. The DNSName and HostedZoneId properties of AliasTarget can take the regionalDomainName and regionalHostedZoneId values, respectively, of the custom domain name. You can also get the Regional Route 53 Hosted Zone IDs in Amazon API Gateway Endpoints and Quotas.

{
  "Changes": [
    {
      "Action": "CREATE",
      "ResourceRecordSet": {
        "Name": "regional.example.com",
        "Type": "A",
        "AliasTarget": {
          "DNSName": "d-numh1z56v6.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",
          "HostedZoneId": "Z2OJLYMUO9EFXC",
          "EvaluateTargetHealth": false
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

The following change-resource-record-sets shows how to create a DNS record for your Regional custom domain name:

aws route53 change-resource-record-sets \
    --hosted-zone-id Z2OJLYMUO9EFXC \
    --change-batch file://path/to/your/setup-dns-record.json

Replace thehosted-zone-id with the Route 53 Hosted Zone ID of the DNS record set in your account. The change-batch parameter value points to a JSON file (setup-dns-record.json) in a folder (path/to/your).

Create a base path mapping for your Regional custom domain name

After your create a DNS record, you create a base path mapping to map your API to the custom domain name. For example, you can map the stage test for the API ID of abc123 to the custom domain name regional.example.com using the API mapping key of myApi. This maps the API https://abcd1234.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/test to https://regional.example.com/myApi.

AWS Management Console

  1. Sign in to the API Gateway console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/apigateway.

  2. Choose Custom domain names from the main navigation pane.

  3. Choose a Regional custom domain name.

  4. On the API mappings tab, choose Configure API mappings.

  5. Enter the API, Stage, and Path for the mapping.

  6. Choose Save.

AWS CLI

The following create-api-mapping command can be used to create a base path mapping:

aws apigatewayv2 create-api-mapping \
    --domain-name 'regional.example.com' \
    --api-mapping-key 'myApi' \
    --api-id abcd1234 \
    --stage 'test'

As a result, the base URL using the custom domain name for the API that is deployed in the stage becomes https://regional.example.com/myAPI.

With a Regional custom domain name, you can create an API mapping with multiple levels, such as https://regional.example.com/orders/v1/items/123. You can also map HTTP and REST API stages to the same custom domain name. For more information, see Map API stages to a custom domain name for REST APIs.