In this step you will stage a private Amazon S3 bucket with a sample HTML file.
Note: Amazon S3 routes any virtual hosted–style requests to the US East (N. Virginia) region by default if you use the US East (N. Virginia) endpoint (s3.amazonaws.com). When you create a new bucket, in any region, Amazon S3 updates DNS to reroute the request to the correct region, which might take time when using Amazon CloudFront for distribution in later section. For the purpose of this exercise, you will create a new bucket in AWS region us-east-1. Detailed explanation of AWS Virtual hosting of buckets is provided in AWS User Guide.
- Log into your AWS account and navigate to the Amazon S3 Management Console.
- Choose Create Bucket.
- Provide a name for Bucket name.
- Select US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 for AWS Region .
- Leave everything as default.
- Choose Create bucket to create the bucket.
- Choose the bucket you just created.
- Choose Upload.
- Choose Add files.
- Choose the included sample file
sample.htmlfrom your local drive. - Choose Upload to upload the file.
You successfully created an Amazon S3 bucket and uploaded a sample HTML file. However if you try to access the sample HTML file using the S3 object URL, like https://yourbucket.s3-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sample.html, in your browser you will get an access denied message. This is exactly what you want. You want to keep your S3 contents private and will only distribute them using an Amazon CloudFront distribution.
In Step 2, you will create the Amazon CloudFront Distribution.