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e.g.

hosted zone: example.com

To update the IP address of your DNS A record for server.example.com with the IP addr 11.22.33.44 

(1) Obtain the route53 hosted-zone-id

aws route53 list-hosted-zones

Example output:

} 

Note the hosted zone id, e.g. above highted in RED

(2) prepare the recordset .json file e.g.

/tmp/update.json

{
    "Comment": "Update record to reflect new IP address of home router",
    "Changes": [
        {
            "Action": "UPSERT",
            "ResourceRecordSet": {
                "Name": "server.example.com.",
                "Type": "A",
                "TTL": 300,
                "ResourceRecords": [
                    {
                        "Value": "11.22.33.44"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

aws route53 change-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id Z1W9BXXXXXXXLB --change-batch file:///tmp/update.json