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Philipp S.
Philipp S.

Reputation: 981

Hosting static website with AWS S3 + Cloud Front without Route 53

I have a external domain which I want to use for a static website on aws.

I found a couple of examples using S3 + CloudFront + Route 53 But is it possible to keep the name server of my domain and work with the external nameserver? (No Route 53?)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 538

Answers (1)

James Dean
James Dean

Reputation: 4421

Yes, it is possible, Route53 isn't mandatory to use CloudFront and S3. You can have CNAME configured in your DNS provider. However, there is a RFC limitation on CNAME restriction for naked/apex domain(as you cannot have a CNAME record and another DNS record of a different type) so Route53 provides an alternate record called alias record, as long as your DNS provider provides this feature, you're good to go. e.g: CloudFlare provides CNAME flattening

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-Understand-and-configure-CNAME-Flattening

Amazon Route53 alias:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resource-record-sets-choosing-alias-non-alias.html

Upvotes: 1

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