Hosting static website with AWS S3 and Route 53

Question

 I currently have website www.myblog.com (entirely static) on a dedicated server and I want to switch to AWS. So far I have done the following:

• Create bucket www.a.com, give proper permission to make it visible for public and uploaded all files
• created Hosted Zone in AWS Route 53 and automatically got two Record Sets, NS and SOA. Next, I added a CNAME for *.myblog.com

Question is now, what do I add for an A record? I don't have an IP

Answer 1

Add an additional bucket called myblog.com and working off of that, don't delete www.myblog.com though, you'll later add a CNAME to that so www.myblog.com redirects to myblog.com in the browser.

Now that you've created the myblog.com bucket, go to Properties > Static Website Hosting > Enable Website Hosting > enter index.html and upload a file with that name to your bucket.

Then go Properties > Permissions > Edit Bucket Policy > Paste the code below:

{
  "Version":"2008-10-17",
  "Statement":[{
    "Sid":"PublicReadForGetBucketObjects",
        "Effect":"Allow",
      "Principal": {
            "AWS": "*"
         },
      "Action":["s3:GetObject"],
      "Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::example-bucket/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Change {example-bucket} to {myblog.com} and save.

Now go to Route53 > Select your domain > Go to record sets > create record set

Make sure 'Type' is set to 'A' and then select 'Yes' next to 'Alias'. Click into the Alias Target area and under S3 websites you should now see a.com. Select it and then at the bottom choose 'Create record set'.

It should work now!