CreateDomainName
Creates a new domain name.
Request Syntax
POST /domainnames HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json
{
"certificateArn": "string",
"certificateBody": "string",
"certificateChain": "string",
"certificateName": "string",
"certificatePrivateKey": "string",
"domainName": "string",
"endpointAccessMode": "string",
"endpointConfiguration": {
"ipAddressType": "string",
"types": [ "string" ],
"vpcEndpointIds": [ "string" ]
},
"mutualTlsAuthentication": {
"truststoreUri": "string",
"truststoreVersion": "string"
},
"ownershipVerificationCertificateArn": "string",
"policy": "string",
"regionalCertificateArn": "string",
"regionalCertificateName": "string",
"routingMode": "string",
"securityPolicy": "string",
"tags": {
"string" : "string"
}
}
URI Request Parameters
The request does not use any URI parameters.
Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- certificateArn
-
The reference to an AWS-managed certificate that will be used by edge-optimized endpoint or private endpoint for this domain name. AWS Certificate Manager is the only supported source.
Type: String
Required: No
- certificateBody
-
[Deprecated] The body of the server certificate that will be used by edge-optimized endpoint or private endpoint for this domain name provided by your certificate authority.
Type: String
Required: No
- certificateChain
-
[Deprecated] The intermediate certificates and optionally the root certificate, one after the other without any blank lines, used by an edge-optimized endpoint for this domain name. If you include the root certificate, your certificate chain must start with intermediate certificates and end with the root certificate. Use the intermediate certificates that were provided by your certificate authority. Do not include any intermediaries that are not in the chain of trust path.
Type: String
Required: No
- certificateName
-
The user-friendly name of the certificate that will be used by edge-optimized endpoint or private endpoint for this domain name.
Type: String
Required: No
- certificatePrivateKey
-
[Deprecated] Your edge-optimized endpoint's domain name certificate's private key.
Type: String
Required: No
- domainName
-
The name of the DomainName resource.
Type: String
Required: Yes
- endpointAccessMode
-
The endpoint access mode of the DomainName. Only available for DomainNames that use security policies that start with
SecurityPolicy_.Type: String
Valid Values:
BASIC | STRICTRequired: No
- endpointConfiguration
-
The endpoint configuration of this DomainName showing the endpoint types and IP address types of the domain name.
Type: EndpointConfiguration object
Required: No
- mutualTlsAuthentication
-
The mutual TLS authentication configuration for a custom domain name. If specified, API Gateway performs two-way authentication between the client and the server. Clients must present a trusted certificate to access your API.
Type: MutualTlsAuthenticationInput object
Required: No
- ownershipVerificationCertificateArn
-
The ARN of the public certificate issued by ACM to validate ownership of your custom domain. Only required when configuring mutual TLS and using an ACM imported or private CA certificate ARN as the regionalCertificateArn.
Type: String
Required: No
- policy
-
A stringified JSON policy document that applies to the
execute-apiservice for this DomainName regardless of the caller and Method configuration. Supported only for private custom domain names.Type: String
Required: No
- regionalCertificateArn
-
The reference to an AWS-managed certificate that will be used by regional endpoint for this domain name. AWS Certificate Manager is the only supported source.
Type: String
Required: No
- regionalCertificateName
-
The user-friendly name of the certificate that will be used by regional endpoint for this domain name.
Type: String
Required: No
- routingMode
-
The routing mode for this domain name. The routing mode determines how API Gateway sends traffic from your custom domain name to your APIs.
Type: String
Valid Values:
BASE_PATH_MAPPING_ONLY | ROUTING_RULE_ONLY | ROUTING_RULE_THEN_BASE_PATH_MAPPINGRequired: No
- securityPolicy
-
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) version + cipher suite for this DomainName.
Type: String
Valid Values:
TLS_1_0 | TLS_1_2 | SecurityPolicy_TLS13_1_3_2025_09 | SecurityPolicy_TLS13_1_3_FIPS_2025_09 | SecurityPolicy_TLS13_1_2_PFS_PQ_2025_09 | SecurityPolicy_TLS13_1_2_FIPS_PQ_2025_09 | SecurityPolicy_TLS13_1_2_PQ_2025_09 | SecurityPolicy_TLS13_1_2_2021_06 | SecurityPolicy_TLS13_2025_EDGE | SecurityPolicy_TLS12_PFS_2025_EDGE | SecurityPolicy_TLS12_2018_EDGERequired: No
-
The key-value map of strings. The valid character set is [a-zA-Z+-=._:/]. The tag key can be up to 128 characters and must not start with
aws:. The tag value can be up to 256 characters.Type: String to string map
Required: No
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 201
Content-type: application/json
{
"certificateArn": "string",
"certificateName": "string",
"certificateUploadDate": number,
"distributionDomainName": "string",
"distributionHostedZoneId": "string",
"domainName": "string",
"domainNameArn": "string",
"domainNameId": "string",
"domainNameStatus": "string",
"domainNameStatusMessage": "