# AWS adds direct protection against changes to Route 53 records

_Published Friday, November 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS has added record set protection to Amazon Route 53 across all commercial Regions where public and private hosted zones are available. Administrators can block changes to critical DNS records until an authorized user removes the protection.

Previously, protecting individual records required conditions in the access policies of every user and role allowed to change a hosted zone. The new control protects records directly by name and type, covering different routing policies together. Administrators can also protect a name and type before a record exists, blocking its creation. Access policies determine who can remove protections.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/amazon-route-53-record-set-protection/)

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Published: 2026-11-13T21:21:51.768Z
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