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Hosting a Static Site with AWS

Written By: Ben Labaschin\ Last Edited: 2/16/23

Domains

  • Buy a domain either on AWS Route53 or somewhere else such as Google Domains.

AWS Domain

  • Go to Route 53, "hosted zone", "create hosted zone"
  • provide domain you've purchased
  • Make private hosted zone

  • press "Create hosted zone"

  • AWS Amplify, "new app", "host web app", GitHub

  • Authorize GitHub, click the repo you'd like to host, allow AWS amplify to provision

Google Use Case: Do Not Recommend

Docs

  • AWS Amplify
  • Go to "Domain Management"
  • Click on Actions and select "View DNS Records"
  • Follow step 1 and place CNAME record into Google Domains Resource records
  • Click on "Export DNS Records" and export to bind
  • Go to Route 53 and click on Hosted zones
  • Go to your hosted zone and Import zone file
  • Paste contents of zone file

Because google doesn't support alias records, we need to set up sub-domain forwarding. Go to the website page for your google domain, click forward-domain and forward the website to... (what?)

  • Go to Route 53 and create a hosted zone. Copy the four namespaces, used for next step.
  • If domain hosted by google, go domains.google,.com -> select your domain -> Select DNS -> Custom Name Servers
  • Under custom namespace servers select "Manage name servers" -> add each namepsace server from the first step into four separate rows. Press save.
  • At the top of the screen, select "switch to these settings"