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AWS Elastic IP is a static, public IPv4 address that you can allocate and associate with your AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances and Network Interface. It provides a persistent public IP address that remains associated with your resources even if they are stopped or restarted.

Transferring an AWS Elastic IP address to another AWS account can be useful in scenarios where you want to migrate resources between accounts or share resources with another account.

Enable Transfer (on source AWS Account)

1. Log in to the AWS Management Console using the credentials of the source AWS account.
2. Navigate to the EC2 Dashboard.
3. In the left-hand menu, click on “Elastic IPs” under the “Network & Security” section.
4. Select the Elastic IP address that you want to migrate to the other account.
5. Click on the “Actions” button at the top of the Elastic IPs table.
6. Choose “Enbale transfers” from the dropdown menu.
7. It will show a popup page, where you need to enter destination AWS Account ID and confirm by typing enable. Click submit.

Accept Transfer on Destination AWS Account

1. Log in to the AWS Management Console using the credentials of the destination AWS account.
2. Navigate to the EC2 Dashboard.
3. In the left-hand menu, click on “Elastic IPs” under the “Network & Security” section.
4. Click on the “Actions” button at the top of the Elastic IP addresses page.
5. Scroll down and select “Accept transfers”.
6. In the popup, enter the IP address you need to accept, click “Submit” button, EIP will be transferred instantly.

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To export DNS Records for a domain, you can use AWS CLI.

First, you need to make an Access key to use with AWS CLI. To configure AWS CLI, run the command

aws configure

You need to enter “Access Key ID:” and “Secret Access Key”. You can generate these in the AWS console by clicking on your name in the right top corner. Then from the drop-down menu, select “Security Credentials”. This will take you to page

https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?region=us-east-1#/security_credentials

In the above URL us-east-1, can be changed with any region code.

On this page, expand “Access keys (access key ID and secret access key)”, then to create Access Key, click on the “Create New Access Key” button.

To list all DNS Zones, use the command

aws route53 list-hosted-zones --output json

From the result, you need to find the numeric id of the hosted zone.

Example

boby@sok-01:~$ aws route53 list-hosted-zones --output json
{
    "HostedZones": [
        {
            "Id": "/hostedzone/Z049372530XJK28PE5FZG",
            "Name": "serverok.in.",
            "CallerReference": "62949efe-088c-44fc-8f02-5f3f5b9fafc3",
            "Config": {
                "Comment": "My DNS Zone",
                "PrivateZone": false
            },
            "ResourceRecordSetCount": 18
        }
    ]
}
boby@sok-01:~$ 

In the above example, the zone id is Z049372530XJK28PE5FZG

To list all DNS records for the zone, use the command

aws route53 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id ZONE_ID_HERE --output json

You can use jq command to list DNS records in non json LogFormat

aws route53 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id Z049372530XJK28PE5FZG --output json | jq -jr '.ResourceRecordSets[] | "\(.Name) \t\(.TTL) \t\(.Type) \t\(.ResourceRecords[]?.Value)\n"'

In the above command, Z049372530XJK28PE5FZG is the zone id for the domain. Replace it with your DNS zone id.

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