Optimizing Content Delivery with CloudFront and Using Custom Domains Route 53 - AWS in Action

This hands-on course demonstrates how to connect a custom domain to an EC2-hosted website using Route 53 and an application load balancer, then optimize delivery with CloudFront edge caching and a custom SSL certificate. It assumes basic familiarity with AWS and focuses on practical configuration rather than introducing AWS fundamentals.

Syllabus

Introduction & Understanding CloudFront
The demo project
Creating a new EC2 instance
Testing the website
Auto-assigned domain names & custom domain names
Getting started with Route 53 & Registering a custom domain
Hosted zones & domain records
Forwarding custom domain traffic to an EC2 instance
Problems with auto-assigned IP addresses
Elastic IP addresses & domain routing
Adding an application load balancer
Forwarding domain traffic to load balancers
Optimizing content delivery with CloudFront
Creating a new CloudFront distribution
Testing & problems with adding a custom domain name
Adding a CNAME to the CloudFront distribution
Adding a custom SSL certificate via Amazon Certificate Manager
Forwarding domain traffic to a CloudFront distribution
Cleanup