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Delegate environment subdomains to separate Route 53 hosted zones with Terraform, scoped permissions, and DNS verification checks.
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Zone delegation is a simple fix to prevent DNS chaos by separating hosted zones for each environment, reducing the blast radius and making IAM more manageable. This is achieved by delegating zones through NS records, allowing each environment to have its own independent zone with isolated record sets.