Migration from AWS Route 53

What is the name of the domain?

not disclosed publically

What is the error number?

no error

What is the error message?

no error

What is the issue you’re encountering

Cloudflare only detects a small fraction of the records in our hosted zone

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Tried the “getting started” wizard.

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

DNS records

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

This form assumes there is an error. There is not.

What is the process for migrating Route 53 records to Cloudflare.

Cloudflare only detects a handful of our records, there are too many to migrate by hand.

I’m sure this must be a common use case. What is the recommended process to safely migrate
our entire zone file?

(Appologies for the line breaks - this form to create a topic is aweful - the blue “help” on the right
overlays the form so you can’t see what you’re typing).

If you have the Zone file, you can Import it:

Thanks.

If anyone else is having this problem, here’s an open source tool for exporting a zone out of Route 53 in BIND format (what cloudflare wants): GitHub - barnybug/cli53: Command line tool for Amazon Route 53

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