How do you host AWS S3 website with a GoDaddy domain?

Question

I have followed a selection of tutorials on how to set up a static website with Amazon Web Services. However, I am now encountering a few problems when trying to link it to my GoDaddy domain.

• I have created two buckets: example.com & www.example.com:

• www.example.com redirects to example.com:

• My example.com bucket has a basic webpage:

• The properties are such:

• The permissions are such:

• My bucket policy is:

  {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
          {
              "Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Principal": "*",
              "Action": "s3:GetObject",
              "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::example.com/*"
          }
      ]
  }
  

• Each file is public:

• On Route 53, I have created one hosted zone called example.com:

• The record sets are such:

• On GoDaddy I have added the DNS like so:

• I ran dig +recurse +trace example.com any:

• I pinged the url:

  [In] :  ping example.com
  .....:  64 bytes from 52.95.149.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=55.722 ms
  

52.95.149.7 is https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

If I go to example.com I get returned with a timeout error (ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT) and I can't work out what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be much appreciated. If you need more details for diagnosis let me know.

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Answer 1

At first glance, I don't see anything wrong. One thing to try is using a proxy, because sometimes the DNS doesn't propagate though the internet quickly enough for you to see it..

Something like https://kproxy.com works. Just punch in your url there.

The other troubleshooting thing I'll do is use https://www.dnsstuff.com/tools to get an idea about how things are routed.

Answer 2

Alias doesn't look alright to me. It supposed to be like the below.

www.example.com.s3-website.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com

OR

example.com.s3-website.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com

If you change that, it should work.

Thanks.