AWS - Setup AWS CloudFront

Create a CloudFront Distributions

  • Go to Services > CloudFront

  • Click on Create Distribution and choose Web Distribution

  • Set the Origin Domain Name to be the newly created s3 bucket

  • Select Redirect HTTP to HTTPS to enable https

  • To enable gzip compression for faster load times, set Compress Objects Automatically to yes

  • Under Alternative Domain names (CNAMEs) enter the URLs where you want your website to be accessible. (in this case, the s3 bucket name or subdomains that your SSL certificate supports, i.e: xxx.cloudfront.net)

  • Set the Default Root Object to index.html so it redirects / to /index.html

  • Click Create Distribution and wait until the distribution is created

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Add CloudFront's Domain name to your DNS CNAME

https://oranwind.org/aws-cloudfront/oranwind.org

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