Optimizing Content Delivery with CloudFront & Using Custom Domains Route 53 | AWS in Action

When serving a website to your customers, you typically want to use a custom domain (instead of some auto-generated AWS-picked domain). Route 53 allows you to register and assign your own domains. You can easily use it with fixed IPs or various AWS services, as you'll see in this video.
For optimizing content delivery, CloudFront can be used to cache some content at the edge (i.e., via edge locations).
In this video, a website served by a server running on EC2 will use both services for optimal delivery.

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00:00 Introduction & Understanding CloudFront
03:15 The demo project
05:26 Creating a new EC2 instance
06:26 Testing the website
07:50 Auto-assigned domain names & custom domain names
08:08 Getting started with Route 53 & Registering a custom domain
09:19 Hosted zones & domain records
11:02 Forwarding custom domain traffic to an EC2 instance
12:36 Problems with auto-assigned IP addresses
12:57 Elastic IP addresses & domain routing
15:00 Adding an application load balancer
18:26 Forwarding domain traffic to load balancers
20:30 Optimizing content delivery with CloudFront
21:12 Creating a new CloudFront distribution
27:29 Testing & problems with adding a custom domain name
28:37 Adding a CNAME to the CloudFront distribution
29:23 Adding a custom SSL certificate (via Amazon Certificate Manager)
31:30 Forwarding domain traffic to a CloudFront distribution
33:07 Cleanup

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