Public Hosted Zone: how to route traffic on the internet
Private hosted Zone: how to route traffic within one or more PVCs (private domain names)
Domains registered in Route53 are automatically added to a HostedZone, but you can also register a domain somewhere else (e.g. godaddy) and create a hosted zone for it in Route 53 manually
Private vs. Public Hosted Zones
In order to use private hosted zone, the VPC must: