Route53 & CloudFront

Prerequisites

Register or transfer a domain with Route53
Deploy an app with Architect and make note of the staging and production URLs

In this step we will request a certificate from Amazon for our domain.

Open up AWS Certificate Manager in the AWS Console in us-east-1 (region is required!)
Click Request a certificate and then Request a public certificate
Ensure example.com and *.example.com for sub domains to work
Choose DNS validation and click Next
Add any tags and confirm the request
Expand the domain and click Create record in Route53 button
Verify CNAME record created in Route53 console Hosted zone

Generate a CloudFront distribution with the certificate from step 1.

Sign into AWS CloudFront in the AWS Console
Click Create Distribution and then click Get Started
Enter the URL from API Gateway in Origin Domain Name
Set Origin Protocol Policy to Match Viewer
Set Viewer Protocol Policy to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
Set Allowed HTTP Methods to GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE
Set Compress Objects Automatically to Yes
Enter the domain alias in Alternate Domain Names (which you will configure in step 3)
Set SSL Certificate to Custom SSL Certificate and select the cert from step 1
Click Create Distribution

Sign into AWS Route53 in the AWS Console
Navigate to the Hosted zone for the domain
Click Create record
Enter the Record name
Record type is A and toggle Alias checkbox on
Select Alias to CloudFront
Select the region
Select the CloudFront distribution domain (should be the same value as the domain generated in Step 2)
Click Create records

Now we’re done! You can check to see if your domains are online with this DNS Checker tool.