How to connect an Amazon EC2 instance to external domain registrar
<p>Hello (I'm posting this here because I apparently can't post on amazons forums), I'm new to Amazon AWS and I'm trying to figure out how to make a wordpress site on EC2 (is this the best choice?) and I just want to point it to my registrar (hover.com).</p>

<p>I'm used to setting up sites and pointing domain names on other hosts but AWS is different so I need some help.</p>

<p>For starters, I seem to be constantly directed at using Route53, well that's another AWS service, and it sounds optional, is it really optional? I did a cost estimator for Route 53 and I did 1 hosted zone, with 1000 hits a month and it estimated around $400. That can't be right. I must be missing something. You're telling me for 1000 hits on a particular domain name, I'm going to have to pay $400? </p>

<p>Where's the name servers? </p>

<p>So to give a little history, I setup a wordpress site on an instance of EC2, and I made an elastic IP and connected it to that WP instance. I see a public IP address, great. The public IP address works fine, but I need to find up that domain name I have registered.</p>

<p>I put the public IP address in the DNS settings at hover, but I need the name servers. The only way I was able to get name servers was doing it through Route 53, which again, is this really needed? </p>

<p>I guess all in all, too, is this the right route? Should I be doing an instance of S3 instead of EC2? I'm on the free tier for a year but I'd like to stick with AWS and I don't want to have to change to another host a year form now. I know the elastic IP's is another cost, is this an astronomical cost? Do I even need to setup an elastic IP? I'd assume so. Lots of questions... any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.</p>