Setup route 53

The last step is to configure route 53 so that you can access your instance using your custom domain.

Create a new record

On your desired hosted zone create a new record. Remember that the record needs to match the ACM certificate that you assigned to your load balancer.

Choose record type A, and enable Alias, and choose Alias to Application Load Balancer. Finally choose the load balancer created in the previous step:

Create the record and then you can test it. However it can take up to 24 hours until the domain is available.