Custom Bluesky Handle on AWS with Terraform/OpenTofu

How to set up your custom Bluesky handle using Terraform/OpenTofu with AWS Route53.

In this post I'll show some example Terraform code to create DNS records in AWS Route53 to use is built on the (eg. your_handle.bsky.social) is a human-friendly identifier that links to a canonical, permanent if you do not already have a hosted zone for your domain.

resource "aws_route53_zone" "domain" {

  name = "YOUR_DOMAIN"

}

(replace YOUR_DOMAIN with your top-level domain (TLD))

Next, find the DNS record value for your DID as described in resource.

resource "aws_route53_record" "TXT_atproto" {

  zone_id = aws_route53_zone.tld.zone_id

  name    = "_atproto.YOUR_DOMAIN"

  type    = "TXT"

  ttl     = 300

  records = [

    "did=did:plc:YOUR_DID"

  ]

}

(replace YOUR_DOMAIN with your handle host name, and YOUR_DID with your DID)

The name attribute of this this Terraform/OpenTofu you can verify the DNS record using dig. For example, my personal DNS record.

> dig TXT _atproto.YOUR_DOMAIN +short 

"did=did:plc:YOUR_DID"

Finally, update your handle in your Bluesky account settings as described in .