Routing Traffic with Route 53 and CloudFront

Overview

Domain expertise for configuring Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to Amazon CloudFront distributions using custom domain names. Covers hosted zone management, alias A/AAAA records, alternate domain name (CNAME) configuration, and ACM certificate setup for HTTPS.

Configure Route 53 to route traffic to a CloudFront distribution

To set up a custom domain for a CloudFront distribution with Route 53 DNS, follow the procedure exactly. See Route 53 CloudFront routing procedure.

The procedure covers:

• Verifying CloudFront distribution status and CNAME configuration
• Requesting and validating ACM certificates (must be in us-east-1)
• Creating or locating public hosted zones
• Creating alias A and AAAA records pointing to CloudFront
• Monitoring DNS propagation