route53.HostedZone.fromLookup returned error

I have a hosted zone on route53, and use the following CDK code (typescript) to look up that zone using domainName, but got error while running cdk synth, cdk diff and cdk deploy. After changing to use route53.HostedZone.fromHostedZoneAttributes(), it works.

Reproduction Steps

const zone = route53.HostedZone.fromLookup(this, 'Zone', { domainName: props.domainName });

Error Log

Cannot retrieve value from context provider hosted-zone since account/region are not specified at the stack level. Either configure "env" with explicit account and region when you define your stack, or use the environment variables "CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT" and "CDK_DEFAULT_REGION" to inherit environment information from the CLI (not recommended for production stacks)
Subprocess exited with error 1

Environment

• CLI Version : 1.19.0 (build 5597bbe)
• Framework Version:1.19.0
• OS :macOS Mojave version 10.14.6
• **Language :typescript **

Other

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This is 🐛 Bug Report

[ilazakis]

cdk 2.29.0

I think the reason synth succeeds while deploy fails when using HostedZoneFromLookup is that the cdk optimistically assumes a successful lookup.

Here’s the synth output for domainHostedZone.HostedZoneId() (using Golang): DUMMY

That looks like a placeholder value in case of unsuccessful lookups.

In fact, after having fought this for a couple of hours, I think the answer to “why does the zone lookup sometimes fail” in my case is eventual consistency. After deleting and recreating the stack/zone in question a few times, I went for a walk, retried and the zone was now “found”.

I have not looked into the JS or Golang implementations yet, but I suspect many may be falling victims to the CDK trying to fallback to a dummy zone instead of failing outright.

[salsa2k]

Hi, I found what is the problem:

Is related to my alias creatio. Before I was using:

     new RecordSet(this, "ApiRecordSetA", {
       zone: props.zone,
       recordName: 'sub.domain.com',
       recordType: RecordType.A,
       target: RecordTarget.fromAlias(new ApiGatewayDomain(customDomain)),
     });

I changed it to:

    new ARecord(this, "ApiRecordA", {
      zone: props.zone,
      recordName: 'sub.domain.com',
      target: RecordTarget.fromAlias(new ApiGatewayDomain(customDomain)),
    });

And now its working o0

Thanks guys