title: Linking Amazon Route 53 Domain Name to EC2 instance
body: <p>I have registered a domain name with Amazon Route53 and I'm trying to link it to an EC2 instance. I'm unable to do this successfully. I have read documentation many times over, I have looked at many tutorials online, I have read many stack overflow answers. I still haven't been able t figure it out. Help will be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>What I have done so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Launched EC2 instance and installed LAMP stack. I'm running a web app on the instance.</li>
  <li>Associated an Elastic IP to the instance and I'm able to reach my web app using this IP address.</li>
  <li>Registered domain name with Route53 </li>
  <li>Created a Hosted Zone with the same name of registered domain</li>
  <li>Created a Record Set with the following info: 
  
  <ul>
  <li>Name: example.com (of course not literally, I have my domain name here)</li>
  <li>Type: A - IPv4 address </li>
  <li>Alias: No</li>
  <li>TTL(Seconds): 300</li>
  <li>Value: Elastic IP of EC2 instance</li>
  <li>Routing Policy: Simple</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>This is the point at which I am stuck. When I run <code>nslookup example.com DNS server name</code> in terminal I get the desired response. Running <code>dig domain name</code>, as expected returns no answers. How do I finally connect the Hosted Zone to my domain name to get the latter pointing to my EC2 instance?</p>