You have the best Tutorial, but I do not understand why you would have 2 A records and 2 distributions, into 2 different buckets, why not just 1 A record and 1 www CNAME record in route 53 to the 1 distribution and from the distribution to the bucket??? Could you please comment on this?
Thank you so much, I just used your tutorial to submit a project half an hour ago! Two things to take into consideration: 1- To invalidate a distribution use /* only, I used /* /** and it took me hours getting stuck with a dummy index.html till I tried /* 2- Amazon CloudFront distributions requests the AWS certificate to be in the US East (N. Virginia) Region to create a distribution, otherwise you can see no certificate! Since these two issues took a long time to fix, I thought I would share them to help!
Damn, you single handedly contributed so much to my hosting that was actually able to pull up my website for a big project 30 min before the deadline, glad i found this vid, keep producing more content like this
Trying hard to break into a new tech career out of college and tutorials like this help tremendously. It’s tutorials like this created by people like you that make me truly feel like I am standing on the shoulders of giants like you. Thx
Dude, this is a spectacular tutorial. Everything was explained so well and concisely. I'm not ever one to post a comment but I thought I needed to let you know what a great job you did. Got my site up and running thanks to you!
nice work mate, appreciate the content! just a single note to add to it: I think it may be cleaner to have 2 A routes, one for www and one for the non www that point to the same cloudfront distribution. There is no need for 2 buckets and 2 cloudfront distributions.
Str8 up best guide to getting everything working properly! We we able to get a new Street Credit website up and running after technical difficulties watching other tutorials. Appreciate you my guy!
This is exactly what I was looking for. I need more projects so I can learn the console. Certification won't get me a j.o.b. without experience. Thank you so much. This is brilliant!
Hello Sir, I am a Developer from India and I find your videos extremely awesome and your content is also great. Please also help us for other practical projects on AWS also. And Thankyou So much for delivering this content.
Hi Nikhil, thanks very much for your kind words. My next video is coming out on Monday and its a Docker Flask App + Aurora Serverless. It's my second in the 'Practical Projects'. Cheers.
Very good tutorial easy to follow and explains process nicely! One thing to note is if your bucket is in a different region as the video, you still have to make sure your certificate is in the region of east Virginia or else the certificate won’t pop up on cloud front. Other than that great tutorial thanks!
@@BeABetterDev Hey just out of curiosity, what if I no longer want to deploy my website? Would I delete the hosted zone on Route 53, or is there an easier way to temporary disable hosting?
Attention: You MUST make the certificates in Us-East-1, it is the only region Cloudfront can pull from. I made mine in Us-East-2 and it was telling me to use my EC2 (?) instance and gather a PEM file and private key... which I didn't even have.... went ahead and just made them in Us-East-1 saved me the hassle...
I am so grateful for this tutorial! You explained everything so perfectly, at the same time keeping it super simple for beginners to understand. Job done well!
I think there's no need to enable public access for the S3 buckets. Just add an access policy that allows the Cloudfront ARNs to do `getObject` on the respective buckets and you're all set. No need to expose the bucket publicly.
Thanks for the cloud front invalidation part. I rebuild my site dozensof times yesterday, deleted and created a few new distributions, reassigneing the DNS, even was thinking my static website code had issues.... Now everythink works and next time I have to wait longer or purge the cache through invalidations... I hope i dont forget /**/*
This is extremely awesome great content, lifesaver. Thanks for this. I actually had searched and searched for ways to host my react app on AWS for a long time now. Thanks really for this.
Gotcha! - As of August 2024 - The certificate has to be created in Virginia East 1 to be picked up in the Distribution. If you create it in another zone it won't appear in the dropdown. Thank you, got my first aws page up and running.
Wonderful video, thank you very much. It might be good to also do one on undoing the CloudFront aspect; I got sick of the long propagation times whenever I needed a hotfix for my site and eventually just nixed CloudFront entirely.
Hi, very practical and clear tutorial, like all the others that you make. Thanks for sharing. I 'd like perhaps someone can just clarify what is the purpose of the www in the domain, and the double buckets, distributions and domain records.. I mean I kinda understand the reason but not really. Keep it up!
Im trying to figure this out too.. I think it is something that is specific to having Route53 be your DNS .. But yeah it would make sense at least to me to just have 1 bucket, and CNAME the www. subdomain to the root domain.. idk
Great tutorial! Transferred my website yesterday following your instructions and everything worked smoothly. One comment/question: Rather than setting up a second S3 bucket (and subsequent Cloudfront distribution for my website without the www and redirecting it to the other I just left the A record in Route 53 for my URL without www which points to the www entry. This is how my website was setup previously when I was hosting it elsewhere and I found this also works with this setup (ie if you enter my URL without www in the web browser DNS redirects this to my URL with www). I wonder if the costs are less doing it this way than having two S3 buckets and Cloudfront distributions? At the very least it halved the process of setting up the website.
I believe that it would lessen the cost. Because you don't use second S3 bucket and second Cloudfront, you don't paid for GET request to CloudFront and S3. You only paid first S3 bucket, first Cloudfront, and Route 53 request cost. But this is a simple and great tutorial that I found. I learn more with this video.
When you say "I just left the A record in Route 53 for my URL without www which points to the www entry", is this done at 17:37 mark where instead of choosing "Alias to S3" for "Value/Route traffic to" field, you picked "Alias to another record hosted in this zone"? Basically, when creating A record for example.com, instead of pointing to S3, you point to www.example.com, which already points to S3. Is my understanding correct?
why do you need to create a separate s3 bucket when you are routing both www and plain domain to the same bucket anyway ? what are the disadvantages of creating CNAME record in route53 to route subdomains to main domain
Thank You. One of the best tutorial - Very well explained. Please will you let me know about the cost factors of Route 53 besides yearly fee for DOMAIN NAME registration? ( In case of multiple websites)
This was a super helpful video! My front end is definitely up and running because of it. One thing I am still struggling with, however, is getting my frontend (which this video helped me deploy successfully) connected with my elastic beanstalk server deployed separately. I can't seem to find much out there on how to get them to communicate. But I see alot of people mention that this is possible with an s3 + cloudfront + route53 react frontend and eb deployed node/express server. Thank you!
Thank you for your fantastic TH-cam tutorials! Your teaching style has been incredibly helpful in my learning journey. Grateful for your expertise! I also have a question: How to connect React.js build in S3 bucket to my Java Spring Boot application? How to make them communicate? Best regards,
Thank you! This is golden! I've never done any deployment before, I made a simple website and hosted it on Amplify, really easy to use but somehow it would not load the mp3 file, after 2 days of trying I gave up and switched to Firebase, which also easy to use but I couldn't get my custom domain name to work. Finally back to AWS S3 + Cloudfront, followed your steps and my website went online just now! I only created one bucket and just added both www and none-www version of my domain to the cloud front, and required SSLs for both domains, this also works. I guess perhaps AWS made some changes in the last 2 years? Also, could you please do another video about CI/CD for S3 + Cloudfront and setting up the stage distribution for developing testing?
Love the channel, just watched the videos on the upcoming projects so looking forward to the stock market project, want to switch out the stock market call to something else
Great Videos. One of the problem I am having is selecting the correct regions at each step and your camera hides yours so it is hard to know what is the right thing to do. Just a thought.
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You have the best Tutorial, but I do not understand why you would have 2 A records and 2 distributions, into 2 different buckets, why not just 1 A record and 1 www CNAME record in route 53 to the 1 distribution and from the distribution to the bucket??? Could you please comment on this?
Thank you so much, I just used your tutorial to submit a project half an hour ago!
Two things to take into consideration:
1- To invalidate a distribution use /* only, I used /* /** and it took me hours getting stuck with a dummy index.html till I tried /*
2- Amazon CloudFront distributions requests the AWS certificate to be in the US East (N. Virginia) Region to create a distribution, otherwise you can see no certificate!
Since these two issues took a long time to fix, I thought I would share them to help!
Both things happened to me exactly as you say. Thanks so much. Author should pin this comment.
Probably the best tutorial on TH-cam about hosting static websites on Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
After 2 years still the best and the most accurate content on the topic!
SOA - Start of Authority. Thanks for all you do, bro.
Thank you
Damn, you single handedly contributed so much to my hosting that was actually able to pull up my website for a big project 30 min before the deadline, glad i found this vid, keep producing more content like this
Thanks so much Arne and I'm glad I was able to help!
Im restarting my career after a long break, thanks to your tutorials, these are helping me greatly, thanks you so much
Happy to help!
Trying hard to break into a new tech career out of college and tutorials like this help tremendously. It’s tutorials like this created by people like you that make me truly feel like I am standing on the shoulders of giants like you. Thx
Dude, this is a spectacular tutorial. Everything was explained so well and concisely. I'm not ever one to post a comment but I thought I needed to let you know what a great job you did. Got my site up and running thanks to you!
Thanks for such a kind comment Michael. I really appreciate the support and glad the video was able to help you to set up your project!
Cheers,
Daniel
nice work mate, appreciate the content! just a single note to add to it: I think it may be cleaner to have 2 A routes, one for www and one for the non www that point to the same cloudfront distribution. There is no need for 2 buckets and 2 cloudfront distributions.
Str8 up best guide to getting everything working properly! We we able to get a new Street Credit website up and running after technical difficulties watching other tutorials. Appreciate you my guy!
Thank you and glad it helped you to set up your website!
This was the third tutorial I watched about S3 static hosting and the best of all! Now my system is up and running
Glad to hear!
This is the only video on TH-cam you need see to answer to the question "How to properly deploy a static web site on AWS"
one of the most useful tutorials I've ever watched
Amazing tutorial. I'm here 2 years later and everything works. Thank you
Couldn't be more clear and useful. Got up and running in minutes with your help.
So glad this was helpful!
This is exactly what I was looking for. I need more projects so I can learn the console. Certification won't get me a j.o.b. without experience. Thank you so much. This is brilliant!
You're very welcome!
Hello Sir, I am a Developer from India and I find your videos extremely awesome and your content is also great. Please also help us for other practical projects on AWS also. And Thankyou So much for delivering this content.
Hi Nikhil, thanks very much for your kind words. My next video is coming out on Monday and its a Docker Flask App + Aurora Serverless. It's my second in the 'Practical Projects'. Cheers.
Very good tutorial easy to follow and explains process nicely! One thing to note is if your bucket is in a different region as the video, you still have to make sure your certificate is in the region of east Virginia or else the certificate won’t pop up on cloud front. Other than that great tutorial thanks!
Thanks for pointing this out Sam!
@@BeABetterDev Hey just out of curiosity, what if I no longer want to deploy my website? Would I delete the hosted zone on Route 53, or is there an easier way to temporary disable hosting?
One of the best tutorials I've watched
First time hitting the like button for an AWS video. Thanks
Thanks debnath! Glad you enjoyed.
Thank you so much this video saved me over $100 because i struggled with this for a long time
Glad this helped!
Attention: You MUST make the certificates in Us-East-1, it is the only region Cloudfront can pull from. I made mine in Us-East-2 and it was telling me to use my EC2 (?) instance and gather a PEM file and private key... which I didn't even have.... went ahead and just made them in Us-East-1 saved me the hassle...
Yeah it's OK if you are in California or Ohio since you're using cloudfront
Good work needs recognition. Thanks mate!
bro i love you. i followed this tutorial and it works perfectly , i was struggling alot before
I followed every step and everything worked well. Thank you for this concise and very weel explained tutorial :)
Awesome video mate. Precise and to the point. All AWS videos should be like this!
Crisp clear tutorial. Very helpful and step by step instructions helped me to follow along, thanks much for great tutorial put together.
This is the best tutorial on the topic I found, thank you very much! It worked wonderfully for my portfolio
PURE GOLD content...that too FREE!!!
very good AWS video series !!! learning a lot from you !!! and very easy to understand English !!!
Thanks vivek!
thank you so much, you helped me convert my simple 1 bucket static site into two urls and give it a certificate.
Thank you so much!! This is my first time deploying a react js app and was completely lost.
You're very welcome!
relevant, neat, efficient ! this video helped me out so much, I have to come here and say THANK YOU !! you are the man !
Was trying to build this end to end solution. This solution really helped. Thanks!!
I am so grateful for this tutorial! You explained everything so perfectly, at the same time keeping it super simple for beginners to understand. Job done well!
Thanks so much fort he kind words Ayushi!
This man is a hero
Not all heroes wear capes. :P
Was looking forward to this ever since the last video!
Hope you enjoyed!
It was a long long journey man.
but it's done now.
I had a major problem that the NS was not the same form godaddy to aws.
Thanks a lot.
Great video.
BTW, you don't need two distributions for www and naked domain. You can add multiple domains to the same distribution. 😉
This is true. I don't think you need two buckets either
I think there's no need to enable public access for the S3 buckets. Just add an access policy that allows the Cloudfront ARNs to do `getObject` on the respective buckets and you're all set. No need to expose the bucket publicly.
Great video, Just one thing to note. You must create your Certificates in the North Virginia zone.
Very precise, Informative and Eloquently explained. Excellent Stuff . Thanks a bunch
You're very welcome Himanshu!
Great lectures. Great teacher.
Many thanks!
Thanks for the cloud front invalidation part. I rebuild my site dozensof times yesterday, deleted and created a few new distributions, reassigneing the DNS, even was thinking my static website code had issues....
Now everythink works and next time I have to wait longer or purge the cache through invalidations... I hope i dont forget /**/*
So smooth. A spectacular way of teaching.
Beo explained well, and cleared all my doubts to deploy React js in Clod front
Very nice job, no one can explain better than this, loved it
Thanks Sagar!
Thank you for your help with this video. I hope you always have a nice days.
Glad I can help and same to you!
Thank you so much, I was feeling lost, glad that this video came at the right time. Very well explained, now i can continue my project work again.
Dude this is an excellent tutorial - Well done!
Thanks Shyam! Glad you enjoyed :)
Best video and best content ever. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
Awesome! This one was actually one of my interview questions! And I found such a nice solution to that! Great work man!
Loved this tutorial. Straight to the point and great explanation.
You're very welcome Fazal!
Just here to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH 😄
superb bro great teacher of aws
this guy has a video for everything! :0
Love you brother for such a detailed tutorial :) Keep making them please.
Thank you so much Moinul!
This is extremely awesome great content, lifesaver. Thanks for this.
I actually had searched and searched for ways to host my react app on AWS for a long time now. Thanks really for this.
Thanks so much Godstime, glad you enjoyed!
Ur a life saver. Perfect video. Please make some more project videos which are helpful in getting a job. Thanks heaps.. cheers
Coming soon Jaman!
@@BeABetterDev bro just wondering, does Issuing Certificate in cloud-front costs anything? Thanks
What are the cost implications of creating two distributions? Is there no way to force a redirect from within CloudFront?
Great video, btw.
Gotcha! - As of August 2024 - The certificate has to be created in Virginia East 1 to be picked up in the Distribution. If you create it in another zone it won't appear in the dropdown.
Thank you, got my first aws page up and running.
Wonderful video, thank you very much. It might be good to also do one on undoing the CloudFront aspect; I got sick of the long propagation times whenever I needed a hotfix for my site and eventually just nixed CloudFront entirely.
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful video, thank you very much for showing how to do all of this.
Hi, very practical and clear tutorial, like all the others that you make.
Thanks for sharing.
I 'd like perhaps someone can just clarify what is the purpose of the www in the domain, and the double buckets, distributions and domain records.. I mean I kinda understand the reason but not really.
Keep it up!
Im trying to figure this out too.. I think it is something that is specific to having Route53 be your DNS .. But yeah it would make sense at least to me to just have 1 bucket, and CNAME the www. subdomain to the root domain.. idk
Best tutorial ever! Thank you so much for your video :)
Great tutorial! Transferred my website yesterday following your instructions and everything worked smoothly. One comment/question: Rather than setting up a second S3 bucket (and subsequent Cloudfront distribution for my website without the www and redirecting it to the other I just left the A record in Route 53 for my URL without www which points to the www entry. This is how my website was setup previously when I was hosting it elsewhere and I found this also works with this setup (ie if you enter my URL without www in the web browser DNS redirects this to my URL with www). I wonder if the costs are less doing it this way than having two S3 buckets and Cloudfront distributions? At the very least it halved the process of setting up the website.
I totally agree. I hope he answers.
I believe that it would lessen the cost. Because you don't use second S3 bucket and second Cloudfront, you don't paid for GET request to CloudFront and S3. You only paid first S3 bucket, first Cloudfront, and Route 53 request cost.
But this is a simple and great tutorial that I found. I learn more with this video.
When you say "I just left the A record in Route 53 for my URL without www which points to the www entry", is this done at 17:37 mark where instead of choosing "Alias to S3" for "Value/Route traffic to" field, you picked "Alias to another record hosted in this zone"? Basically, when creating A record for example.com, instead of pointing to S3, you point to www.example.com, which already points to S3. Is my understanding correct?
@@karlang2637 Yes that’s right
Dude, very well explained. Super
Thank you Girish!
Thanks boss, that was helpful! Now I got my own MEAN Stack App hosted with my own domain Name 😊
why do you need to create a separate s3 bucket when you are routing both www and plain domain to the same bucket anyway ? what are the disadvantages of creating CNAME record in route53 to route subdomains to main domain
Great content. Thank you for this practical tutorial. This will be immensely helpful to lot of geeks
One of the best tutorials I found on youtube! You explain everything very well and it helps that you have the same voice as MoistCr1tical hehe :D
Thank you so much for the kind words
Chapters would be awesome here. I already have S3 + Route 53, all I need is the CloudFront part
loved it! very simplified it is! ❤🙌
Glad it was helpful!
Great effort, it valued back to me on time and learning..
Thank You. One of the best tutorial - Very well explained. Please will you let me know about the cost factors of Route 53 besides yearly fee for DOMAIN NAME registration? ( In case of multiple websites)
This was a super helpful video! My front end is definitely up and running because of it. One thing I am still struggling with, however, is getting my frontend (which this video helped me deploy successfully) connected with my elastic beanstalk server deployed separately. I can't seem to find much out there on how to get them to communicate. But I see alot of people mention that this is possible with an s3 + cloudfront + route53 react frontend and eb deployed node/express server. Thank you!
Very informative video!
Instead of manually uploading website content, can we do it via github?
You're the best. Thanks for the video
Thanks Duy!
Amazing video! Really enjoyed this one!
Man, I can't wait to follow along on this project with my MAC
3 Minutes Later...
Dude, excellent video. Thank you so much.
You're welcome!
This is really good and useful, cheers!
Thanks Pawel! Glad it was helpful.
Thank you for your fantastic TH-cam tutorials! Your teaching style has been incredibly helpful in my learning journey. Grateful for your expertise!
I also have a question: How to connect React.js build in S3 bucket to my Java Spring Boot application? How to make them communicate?
Best regards,
Excellent tutorial. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Very detailed video. awesome tutorial video.
You're very welcome niraj!
Thank you! This is golden!
I've never done any deployment before, I made a simple website and hosted it on Amplify, really easy to use but somehow it would not load the mp3 file, after 2 days of trying I gave up and switched to Firebase, which also easy to use but I couldn't get my custom domain name to work. Finally back to AWS S3 + Cloudfront, followed your steps and my website went online just now!
I only created one bucket and just added both www and none-www version of my domain to the cloud front, and required SSLs for both domains, this also works. I guess perhaps AWS made some changes in the last 2 years?
Also, could you please do another video about CI/CD for S3 + Cloudfront and setting up the stage distribution for developing testing?
Awesome content! Everything is clear and just works!!!
fantastic tutorial. thanks. just thought i'd mention that the certificate must be created in US-east-1 (n.virginia)
Thanks so much for the kind words!
Love the channel, just watched the videos on the upcoming projects so looking forward to the stock market project, want to switch out the stock market call to something else
Thanks Dean! I'm quite excited to put that together myself. I should have it out in the coming months. Cheers
Simply beautiful!!!
My dude, this is great content! Thank you.
Great Videos. One of the problem I am having is selecting the correct regions at each step and your camera hides yours so it is hard to know what is the right thing to do. Just a thought.
Excellent video! I'm surprised it's necessary to create the redirect bucket. I would've never figured that out on my own. Thanks!
Excellent content/tutorial
Thanks so much Marco
You're amazing men! so simple
This video saved my day!
You're very welcome!
Thank you, buddy, you video was super helpful to me to fix an issue related to this. Much much appreciated.
You're very welcome!
Excellent stuff!
If you could post more of these practical videos, that will be wonderful. Thank you.
More coming soon!