# [[_Route53|Route 53]] Hosted Zone
A hosted zone is a container for [[Record Sets|Record Sets]], scoped to route traffic to a specific domain or subdomain.

There are 2 types of [[Route 53 Hosted Zone|Route 53 Hosted Zones]]:
- Public Hosted Zones: How you want to route traffic inbound from the Internet
- Private Hosted Zones: How you want to route traffic within an Amazon [[_VPC|VPC]].


```mermaid
flowchart TD
    DomainHZ --> RecordSet
    RecordSet --> WildcardRecordSet
```

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