A development team is building a new web application in the AWS Cloud.

When a client queries a DNS server for a domain name, the DNS server typically starts by looking for NS records to determine which name servers are authoritative for the domain. The DNS server then queries the authoritative name servers to obtain the information about the domain that the client requested. For example, suppose you own the domain example.com, but you want to delegate control of the subdomain sub.example.com to a different set of name servers. You would create NS records in the example.com zone file that point to the name servers for sub.example.com. This tells DNS servers that the name servers for sub.example.com are authoritative for that subdomain, and they should query those name servers for any requests related to sub.example.com.