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Why use route 53 vs your registrar’s dns? Or use Cloudflare, it’s free

I thought I couldn't use my registrar's DNS unless I wanted it to redirect to the weird URL for the s3 bucket. But maybe I've got it all wrong and just took someone's S3 static site build instructions too literally 5 yrs ago.

There are definitely some odd things you need to do with page rules to get it working properly with https but it is possible. I'd ping CF support or Google it.

no, you can set your cname to the s3 bucket's url in your registrar's dns settings...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosti...

You can also use cloudfront to do SSL if you need it.

Note: If you're really only need to host a static website and want SSL for free, Github static hosting will give you all that for free. https://pages.github.com/

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