Create an SSL Certificate for your website
In the Certificate Manager console, click the Request a certificate button
Enter the domain name in the field
Click the Review and request button
Click the button in the email that this request sends you to validate the request
Create the bucket for your website in S3
Create a new bucket in s3
In the Permissions section, click the Edit bucket policy button and paste this in (swapping out BUCKET_NAME with the name of your bucket):
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "*"
},
"Action": "s3:GetObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME/*"
}
]
}
Enable it for Static Website Hosting
Set Index Document to index.html
Set Error Document to index.html
Copy the Endpoint listed (something like bucketname.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com)
Connect your website in S3 to a new CloudFront Distribution
Create a new Web CloudFront Distribution
Paste in the Endpoint you previously copied into the Origin Domain Name field
Set Origin Protocol Policy to HTTP Only
Set Viewer Protocol Policy to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
Set Price Class to Use Only US and Europe (or not, who knows)
Set Alternate Domain Names to the domain that you're creating, e.g. www.your-site.com
Set SSL Certificate to Custom SSL Certificate (example.com)
Select the appropriate SSL Certificate from the pull down menu in this section
Set Default Root Object to index.html
Click the Create Distribution button
In the CloudFront Distributions list page, click on the new distribution's ID
Click on the Error Pages tab
Click the Create Custom Error Response button
Set HTTP Error Code to 404: Not Found
Set Error Caching Minimum TTL to 0
Set Customize Error Response to Yes
Set Response Page Path to /index.html
Set HTTP Response Code to 200: OK
Save
Configure DNS to serve the new CloudFront Distribution
Add a new CNAME entry for your domain name
Set Host to www (or whatever subdomain you're setting up)
Set the location to the Domain Name that's listed in the CloudFront Distributions list page e.g. q34gigra9il.cloudfront.net
Save the changes and wait for DNS changes to propagate
