Why does the Route 53 example create an A record instead of a CNAME?

[wz2b]

Why in the example from @aws-cdk-aws-route53-targets does the apigwv2 sample generate an A record rather than a CNAME record?

/* Example from @aws-cdk-aws-route53-targets, doesn't work - makes CDK hang */
import * as apigwv2 from '@aws-cdk/aws-apigatewayv2';

declare const zone: route53.HostedZone;
declare const domainName: apigwv2.DomainName;

new route53.ARecord(this, 'AliasRecord', {
    zone,
    target: route53.RecordTarget.fromAlias(
        new targets.ApiGatewayv2DomainProperties(domainName.regionalDomainName, domainName.regionalHostedZoneId)
    )
});

What I have always done (manually) is create a CNAME record to the API Gateway domain name listed under API Gateway / Custom Domain names in the console. I am not following this example or why you would want it to be an ARecord.

I changed the above code to this for my own and it seems to work:

/* my version, which works */
return new CnameRecord(this, `autofrog-phone-api-cname`, {
    recordName: 'phone',
    zone: this.zone,
    domainName: this.apiGatewayDomainName.regionalDomainName, /* instance of @aws-cdk/aws-apigatewayv2-alpha:IDomain */
    deleteExisting: false,
    comment: "added by cdk"
});

[wz2b]

An alias record is a Route 53 extension to DNS that's similar to a CNAME record. For a comparison of alias and CNAME records, see Choosing between alias and non-alias records.

That was the answer. I did not know what an Alias record was until a few minutes ago.

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