Let’s look into the steps to add HTTPS to AWS S3. At Bobcares, with our AWS Support Services, we can handle your AWS issues.

Adding HTTPS to AWS S3

Existing resource migration to HTTPS can be a difficult procedure that involves several intermediary stages. The main steps are as follows:

1. Getting SSL Certificate
2. Linking with CloudFront
3. Pointing the URL to CloudFront

Let’s look into each step in detail.

Getting SSL Certificate

We need an SSL certificate to start the process. We can use Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, which issue free certificates. A cert-manager is built into AWS and will issue certificates for AWS services. We must use one of two below methods to confirm ownership when adding a domain to a certificate:

• Email verification
• DNS verification

Compared to email verification, DNS verification provides a lot of benefits. Most importantly, we won’t need to check the email to renew the certificate. We just need to validate once for various subdomains. We must add a CNAME record with the registrar for a few lengthy, random domains in order to do DNS verification. AWS checks there is forwarded back to its own server and determines that everything is connected.

Linking with CloudFront

CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that can add HTTPS to S3 resources. We need to link the new SSL certificate with the S3 bucket with CloudFront.

When we select “Create Distribution” on the CloudFront Dashboard, we’ll see a few pages of options where we may set up CloudFront. Except for the two changes mentioned below, most of them may be left by default.

For Origin Settings — select the S3 bucket

For the SSL certificate — select “Custom SSL” and then the one we created above.

Pointing the URL to CloudFront

We may build an alias that points from the domain to the newly formed CloudFront Distribution from the Route S3 dashboard. When we click on “Alias Target,” a drop-down menu opens up so we can choose the CloudFront distribution and build the recordset.

It will take around 45 minutes for these modifications to take effect, but once they do, we should be able to input the URL of any S3 item and see it load over HTTPS.

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Conclusion

To conclude, we provide the main steps from our Tech team to add HTTPS to the AWS S3 object.