Siteleaf

Using AWS S3 and Route 53

After building Siteleaf we took it upon ourselves to each rebuild our site using the service. I had previously used S3 with Jeykll and wanted to continue using it, but getting set up can be a bit of a mystery.

I’m assuming that you’re using Route 53 for DNS, and want to serve content from the root domain while having www redirect to it.

Amazon S3

Head to your S3 Console where you’ll make one bucket named after your root domain, and another with the www subdomain (e.g. example.com and www.example.com). Take note of the region you choose.

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