routing-traffic-with-route53-and-cloudfront

To route traffic from Route 53 to CloudFront, you configure A and AAAA alias records in your Route 53 hosted zone that point to your CloudFront distribution. This approach uses a CLI-driven process to manage DNS records and ensure secure delivery.

The best way to set up TLS termination for CloudFront is to provision an AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate and complete DNS validation. You then attach this certificate to your distribution to enable HTTPS on your custom domain.

Yes, managing this infrastructure requires specific IAM permissions to create and update Route 53 hosted zones, request ACM certificates, and modify CloudFront distributions. The setup specifies these exact permissions needed for CLI-driven execution.

Yes, the configuration supports IPv6 traffic by enabling AAAA records in Route 53 for modern clients. It ensures your CloudFront distribution is ready to handle IPv6 requests alongside standard IPv4 A records.

Yes, you can use this approach for new domain deployment. It covers end-to-end setup including hosted zone creation, domain validation, TLS certificate provisioning, and final CloudFront distribution configuration.

Routing traffic to CloudFront with Route 53 is error-prone due to complex DNS record management and TLS validation steps. A repeatable CLI-driven approach ensures accurate hosted zone handling, alias records, and certificate configuration.