Terraform Route53 Error — Tried to create an alias, but the alias target name does not lie within the target zone

This is a quick post to show how to fix the following error

When you are setting the zone_id for an alias, it is not the DNS zone ID that you should use, instead, you should get the Hosted Zone ID of Elastic Load Balancing here:

Elastic Load Balancing endpoints and quotas

Get the load balancer zoneID corresponding to your region:

Add to your terraform code, and run apply again:

That’s it, hope it helps!

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