Amazon Lightsail Subdomain Setup

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I'm currently moving all of my hosting from a cheap shared hosting provider over to Amazon LightSail. Normally, when sending work over to clients for approval, I create a subdomain through my hosting provider's c-panel and upload the required files through FTP.

I am at a loss when it comes to setting up a subdomain through AWS Lightsail though. I've created a static IP and I've created the A record for the subdomain, but where do I put the directory that the files I want my client review for that subdomain sit and what IP address do I need to point the subdomain at?

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I had faced the same problem. I had used up 2 Lightsail instances per account as the other answer mentioned. I had no way to setup subdomain for another application I hosted on Elastic Beanstalk.

Solution is - Use Route53 & Create Hosted Zone there. Instead of creating DNS Zone in Lightsail. Then point A record to the Static IP of Lightsail.

Hope this solves your problem.

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