In order to start adding DNS records we first need to add a hosted zone to Route 53. As you can see in the following code, this is reasonably simple to do. The Name we are going to supply will be provided as a parameter to our CloudFormation template:

DNSHostedZone: 
  Type: "AWS::Route53::HostedZone" 
  Properties: 
    Name: 
      Ref: DomainName