Comments on: How to Alias a Domain Name or Sub Domain to Amazon S3

By: Francis

Francis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:08:27 +0000

Thanks dude, that’s exactly the info I was looking for!
It worked great

By: Ashok Srinath

Ashok Srinath — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:58:28 +0000

@gurpreet singh gill, AWS doesn’t provide general DNS services. You will need access to a DNS server in order to do this, so that you can add more A or CNAME records. The easiest way is to buy your own domain name, and then add all these records through the service provider.

By: Khal

Khal — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:07:25 +0000

yeah, my bad, CloudBerry is client side on Windows. I have actually moved on since my original posts on this thread. I am now on RackSapce Cloud Files. It uses Akamai and although it does not yet have PoP.. its brilliant. Highly recommend.

By: Louis

Louis — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:34:45 +0000

Bucket Explorer keeps crashing on me. I use a Mac (Lion) and found that Transmit works the best for me.
It acts like an FTP client (well it is actually an FTP client} only the buckets i have to create through the AWS web interface

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you!

By: Kirti

Kirti — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:25:18 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for specifying Bucket Explorer tool in your very good article to help users of Amazon S3 a lot.
I am one of the developer team member, and we always well come the users feedback.
Bucket Explorer provides an easy and complete GUI to implement all the functionality of Amazon S3, Cloud Front,SNS and Import-Export service.
Use can perform Multipart-Upload and resume it,Multipart-Download, host your Bucket as S3 website and many more..
http://www.bucketexplorer.com/

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By: devagurunathan

devagurunathan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:37:13 +0000

Hi dudes,

It was a very good post, hope it would have helped many.

@elanthalir: This was the one I was searching for and did it after some R&D. If I would have seen this before my work would have been simple.

Mapping CNAME to http://www.mydomain.com.s3.amazonaws.com does’nt work. Else map to http://www.mydomain.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com works

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By: gurpreet singh gill

gurpreet singh gill — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:46:14 +0000

actually my problem is this i want to create a subdomain how couls i create in ec2 amazon.com actually i want to host my 3 projects and i searched alot but no success.. now could u plz tel the steps how to do.

and here my domian name is:
http://ec2-122-248-220-105.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com

now to create subdomian so that i can host my multiple projects.
thanx in advance..

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By: Kamal

Kamal — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:38:47 +0000

Hi,

It was a very good post, hope it would have helped many.

@elanthalir: This was the one I was searching for and did it after some R&D. If I would have seen this before my work would have been simple.

Mapping CNAME to http://www.mydomain.com.s3.amazonaws.com does’nt work. Else map to http://www.mydomain.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com works

By: elanthalir

elanthalir — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:24:03 +0000

@carlton thanks for your reply

its possible now – http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-on-amazon-s3.html

i have done that,
1. create bucket with like http://www.mydomain.com.s3.amazonaws.com
2. create CNAME with host www and point to http://www.mydomain.com.s3.amazonaws.com

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:01:16 +0000

I don’t know of a way to do this, and I probably wouldn’t recommend it. As I recall, there is no way to make AWS display a default page or file, so if someone goes to yourdomain.com, they will receive an XML file listing instead of showing the default index.html file dedicated web servers would show.

By: elanthalir

elanthalir — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:52:35 +0000

thanks for the writeup, steps you have given are working perfectly if use sub-domain, that’s aws.mydomain.com to aws.mydomain.com.s3.amazonaws.com

but i want to use aws as my main hosting, like mydomain.com point to mydomain.com.s3.amazonaws.com

now i’m using domain forwarding for this but as you know this is revealing my aws url.

when i try to configure CNAME for my domain for mydomain.com my DNS register control panel always gives error like already CNAME exists.

is there any other like A address or some other ways i can use to use aws as my root domain.

thanks in advance

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:10:11 +0000

Here’s the deal. You setup your bucket as normal and store your files in (my bucket name is s3.carltonbale.com). To create a CloudFront from that bucket, you go to your AWS S3 control panel and create a new CloudFront and set the origin bucket (in my case s3.carltonbale.com.s3.amazonaws.com.) At this point, it will give you a new domain name for the CloudFront, something like DA300348sdfs.cloudfront.net. You then then configure that CloudFront in the CloudFront control panel and and assign a CNAME, which is s3.carltonbale.com for me (so now both S3 bucket and CloudFront are set to respond to that CNAME.)

Now you can use either the S3 version or the CloudFront version of the shared files. So if I go to my webserver and point the s3.carltonbale.com CNAME to s3.amazon.com, I get the files via S3. But if I set the webserver CNAME to DA300348sdfs.cloudfront.net, I get the CloudFront version.

By: Scott Judson

Scott Judson — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:21:48 +0000

Can you please clarify for me do I set my cname to point to my bucket or just to the s3.amazon.com?

When I ask the WP Amazon plugin to verify that it is set up it says no and add my.bucket.com CNAME my.bucket.com.s3.amazon.com

Love to get thsi working

Cheers.

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:41:33 +0000

I should add that you do have to create a new S3 CloudFront bucket, and then a CNAME that points it. For example, s3.carltonbale.com points to CNAME d18******.cloudfront.net.

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:12:52 +0000

Edward, as I recall, you do everything the same, but you designate the bucket as a CloudFront bucket instead of the default bucket type. You then get the CloudFront features and pay a slightly higher price. I wish I could be more specific about how to designate a CloudFront, but it’s been a while since I’ve done so.

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:43:13 +0000

About a year ago, you left a comment on the following page:

http://www.marketingtechblog.com/technology/wordpress-amazon-s3/

You said…

“I should add, you will need to point your CNAME to the new

your_unique_cloudfront_distribution_name.cloudfront.net

instead of to

your_unique_subdomain.s3.amazonaws.com

But after that, you treat it just like a normal S3 bucket.”

My question is this:

I have set up my Cloudfront CNAME in my DNS settings just as you suggested on that page.

Now, how can I use the Cloudfront Service and still use a subdomain on my s3 account?

For example,

While I am using the s3 Service I want it to say something like

my_subdomain.my_domain.com.s3.amazonaws.com/myfile.txt

Then I can remove the s3.amazonaws.com part and just use the

my_subdomain.my_domain.com/myfile.txt and I can access my file.

How do I do the same for the Cloudfront Service? (I don’t necessarily want people to be able to see that I am using s3.)

For example,

While I am using the Cloudfront Service I want it to say something like

your_unique_cloudfront_distribution_name.cloudfront.net/myfile.txt

Is there a way to remove the

your_unique_cloudfront_distribution_name.cloudfront.net

part and just use the

my_subdomain.my_domain.com/myfile.txt

like I did with the s3 Service? (So that it looks like I am not using s3?)

Last, on the post located on this page, you said… “it took about 2 hours for my subdomain to be recognized by AmazonAWS.”

How exactly can you tell when your new subdirectory is up and running when you are using the Cloudfront Service? Are the 3 s3 URLs you mentioned on the post located on this page different for the Cloudfront Service, or are Cloudfront URLs the same as the s3 URLs?

Thanks for your help.

Edward