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title: 'Tutorial: Use AWS Route 53 private hosted zone with CloudConnexa'
canonical: https://openvpn.net/cloud-docs/tutorials/configuration-tutorials/dns/tutorial--use-aws-route-53-private-hosted-zone-with-cloudconnexa/
product: CloudConnexa Docs
description: This tutorial shows you how to configure CloudConnexa DNS servers to make use of Route 53 private hosted zones.
keywords: AWS Route 53 private hosted zone
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# Tutorial: Use AWS Route 53 private hosted zone with CloudConnexa

There are two options for properly configuring the CloudConnexa service to work with your AWS private hosted zone. For both options, you must first [reconfigure your CloudConnexa DNS servers](https://openvpn.net/cloud-docs/changing-dns-servers.md) to use the IP address of the Amazon-provided DNS servers for your VPC, which is the IP address at the base of the VPC Network range "plus two." For example, if the CIDR range for your VPC is `10.0.0.0/16`, the IP address of the DNS server is `10.0.0.2`.

After configuring your CloudConnexa DNS servers, you can then either:

- [**Turn ON NAT on the EC2 instance running the Connector**](https://openvpn.net/cloud-docs/connecting-networks-to-openvpn-cloud-using-connectors.md) **, or**
- [**Create an inbound rule for Route 53**](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resolver-getting-started.html)

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