amazon route53 - AWS Certificate pending validation for S3 site

Question

Under Route 53 I have registered a domain name domain.name and created a hosted zone which, by default, has the NS and SOA records.

In Certificates I have requested a public certificate for the domain name domain.name in the us-east-1 region (N. Virginia).

Under the new certificate, I see the notice Add the following CNAME record to your DNS configuration and it has name _1abc2cd5ac5ee12c1234f1234c123b1c.domain.name. and value _e8f2db123456789c2b1a1234ab123456.abcdefghij.acm-validations.aws.

When, under the new domain.name certificate, I click Request Record in Route 53 I see the Success message and this leads me to see the CNAME record under Route 53 with Record name _1abc2cd5ac5ee12c1234f1234c123b1c.domain.name and value _e8f2db123456789c2b1a1234ab123456.abcdefghij.acm-validations.aws.

From this point on the certificate status persistently shows Pending validation (for >3 hours now.)

While I notice that the name property appears to have a trailing period on the certificate page, but does not have the trailing period on the record name, I cannot see anything else which would cause this to fail validation.

Answer 1

As described on this SO post the problem was that when I deleted and created a new hosted zone the DNS names were incorrect.

To solve this I copied the Name servers from under my Registered domains entry and updated the name server addresses for the NS record of my hosted zone.