Associate DNS aliases with your file system - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Associate DNS aliases with your file system

You can associate DNS aliases with existing FSx for Windows File Server file systems, when you create new file systems, and when you create a new file system from a backup using the Amazon FSx console, CLI, and API. If you are creating an alias with a different domain name, input the full name, including parent domain, to associate an alias.

This procedure describes how to associate DNS aliases when creating a new file system using the Amazon FSx console. For information about associating DNS aliases with existing file systems, and details about using the CLI and API, see Managing DNS aliases.

To associate DNS aliases when creating a new file system

  1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

  2. Follow the procedure for creating a new file system as described in Step 5. Create your file system of the Getting Started section.

  3. In the Access - optional section of the Create file system wizard, enter the DNS aliases that you want to associate with your file system.

    Use the following guidelines when specifying DNS aliases:

    • Must be formatted as a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) hostname.domain, for example, accounting.example.com.

    • Can contain alphanumeric characters and hyphens (‐).

    • Cannot start or end with a hyphen.

    • Can start with a numeric.

    For DNS alias names, Amazon FSx stores alphabetic characters as lowercase letters (a-z), regardless of how you specify them: as uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or the corresponding letters in escape codes.

  4. For Maintenance preferences, make any changes that you want.

  5. In the Tags - optional section, add any tags that you need, and then choose Next.

  6. Review the file system configuration shown on the Create file system page. Choose Create file system to create the file system.