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It is, but thankfully some of us now have a solution http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/05/moving-ahead-with-amazon-...



There's another work-around I've been using for 6+ months now. A cronjob which resolves the CNAME target (i.e., the ELB hostname) to an IP, then dynamically updates the A record(s) for the zone. It's a hack, but it does the job.


The uncoolness in most hacks like this is they can accidentally create a single point of catastrophic failure. If your cron job fails to run for a while, your entire website will go down.




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