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

Learn how to optimize content delivery and use custom domains with AWS services in this comprehensive tutorial. Explore CloudFront for efficient content caching at edge locations and Route 53 for domain registration and management. Follow along as the instructor demonstrates setting up a website on an EC2 instance, configuring custom domains with Route 53, and implementing CloudFront for improved content delivery. Discover how to work with elastic IP addresses, application load balancers, and SSL certificates. By the end of this hands-on guide, you'll have the skills to enhance your website's performance and user experience using AWS CloudFront and Route 53.

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