Custom Domains for AWS API Gateway Without Route 53

There’s some very good articles on using the Serverless Framework to setup custom domains for API Gateway endpoints. For my use case I wasn’t planning to use Route 53 for DNS hosting for the domain so they were missing a crucial step. This post documents that step. Configuration Follow the article linked above to setup the plugin and basic configuration. The configuration for the custom domain in theserverless.yml file is almost exactly as shown in the article with the exception of the createRoute53Record line which I changed to turn off the Route 53 DNS interaction. Setup Steps With that change [Read on…]