Pointing my new domain name to a Amazon S3 bucket's endpoint.

So I have my resources uploaded to amazon s3, and have an endpoint address. How do I point my domain name to that endpoint? I think it might be a CNAME, but I don't know what that means yet. Do I need CustomDNS to do that from http://DynDNS.com? Thanks!

asked Mar 11 at 01:20 AM

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Yes, you'll need Custom DNS. You'll then create the records following Amazon's instructions - if you can't find them edit your question to let us know and we'll see if we can find them for you.

answered Mar 11 at 07:05 AM

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Thanks! Now if I can just get it to work...

Mar 11 at 07:27 PM carrollh

The big trick here is CNAME to www.example.com and not example.com. A bucket in s3 must be created called www.example.com and configured as a website. Edit the DNS CNAME for www.example.com in dyn to alias to the URL of the bucket on s3. You can find this URL in the AWS management consol for s3.