Will Route53 private hosted zone work over AWS VPC Peering

Question

Consider the following scenario.

I have a bunch of appliances that serve my production environment (RDS, Mongo, Cache, Search etc...).

On the other side I have 2 more application environments (Lets say, Legacy and NewGen). Each has its own deployments, and resides in its own VPC.

I would like both my Legacy and NewGen to be able to "talk" with my appliances VPC. Thats what the VPC peering is for.

What I would also like to do is, with in the appliances VPC to create a private hosted zone that will map some rds.comp.com or cache.comp.com routes to their designated instances/services and be able to make calls to rds.comp.com or cache.comp.com from my Legacy or NewGen VPCs.

Before I get into this I would like to know if what i am asking is possible or not.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, your scenario is directly supported by Amazon Route 53 Private Hosted Zones.

A private hosted zone is a container that holds information about how you want to route traffic for a domain and its subdomains within one or more Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs).

In this way, a Private Hosted Zone can be setup between the Legacy and NewGen VPCs. A resource record in the private zone of comp.com can be associated to both VPCs. A DNS query in each VPC for a resource will return the RR associated in the zone.