.. meta::
   :description: Micetro synchronizes ALIAS records, which can be viewed in the web application or through API.
   :keywords: ALIAS, Micetro, DNS, Records, Cloud, AWS, Azure

.. _alias-dns-records:

AWS and Azure ALIAS records in Micetro
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Micetro synchronizes ALIAS records, which can be viewed in the Web Application or through API.

In Micetro, ALIAS records are read-only. They have the type "ALIAS" and their underlying :ref:`DNS record type<DNS Resource Records>` is represented in the data field of the record, along with the resource id/hostname in a human-readable and raw format, all tab-separated.

.. note::
    In the data grid, the full resource ID is not displayed in the **Data** column of the ALIAS record's entry in the list of a DNS zone's resource records. Only the underlying record type and formatted resource ID are displayed.

Examples of AWS and Azure ALIAS records
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**Data**

underlying_dns_record_type<tab>resource_id_formatted<tab>full_resource_id

.. note::
    Resources in Azure are identified by a slash-separated string. Resources in AWS are identified by their DNS hostname.

**ALIAS record AWS data example**

A VPC endpoint:

Europe (Stockholm)<tab>vpce-04e04fa8c9c44a079-fmwbokaq-eu-north-1a.vpce-svc-02498cff0b1f41c19.eu-north-1.cpvce.amazonaws.com.

**ALIAS record Azure data example**

A public IP address:

ip-name<tab>/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/{resource-group-name}/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/ip-name

Record types that support ALIAS records
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Record types that support ALIAS records in AWS include the following:

* A
* AAAA
* CAA
* CNAME
* MX
* NAPTR
* PTR
* SPF
* SRV
* TXT

Records types that support ALIAS records in Azure include the following:

* A
* AAAA
* CNAME

.. note::
    No other record types are supported, even though they can be created in the cloud platform UI (or through API).