Route53 only for wildcard subdomain

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Published on 2012-11-15T10:38:18Z Indexed on 2012/11/15 11:06 UTC
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We recently moved our web application to AWS. One thing that is still managed by our old hoster is DNS.

OLD HOSTER
example.com.    NS     <Old hoster's name server> 
example.com.    A      <ElasticIP on EC2 instance>
*.example.com.  CNAME  example.com.
...

I'm now trying to setup and play around with Route53 and use it for name resolution of our EC2 instances.

ROUTE53
web-01.aws.example.com.  CNAME  ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.
web-02.aws.example.com.  CNAME  ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.
...

Now my question: Is it possible to forward DNS queries for *.aws.example.com to Route53 (ns-xxxx.awsdns-59.co.uk.)? What kind of record would I have to add?

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