Associating a custom domain name with a CDN

In the Serving a single-page application from a CDN recipe, we covered the steps required to add a CloudFront CDN layer in front of S3 and avail ourselves of more valuable features. One of these features is the ability to associate a custom domain name with the resources served from the CDN, such as a single-page application or a cloud-native service. In this recipe, we will take the deployment process another step further and demonstrate how to add a Route53 record set and a CloudFront alias.

Getting ready

You will need a registered domain name and a Route53 hosted zone, which you can use in this recipe to create a subdomain for the SPA that will be deployed.

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