AWS-Cloudformation-static-website-s3-cloudfront-route53

Goal

A cloud formation template that creates a static website that uses a custom domain to server traffic through a cloud front distribution with website static asserts hosted in an s3 bucket.

Perquisites

Python
AWS Command Line Interface

You must configure the default credential for use with AWS Command Line Interface

$ aws configure

Usage

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name myteststack --template-body file:///home/testuser/mytemplate.yaml --parameters DomainName=Parm1,FullDomainName=test1 ParameterKey=Parm2,AcmCertificateArn=test2
{
  "StackId" : "arn:aws:cloudformation:us-west-2:123456789012:stack/myteststack/330b0120-1771-11e4-af37-50ba1b98bea6"
}

Template Properties

• DomainName - The DNS name of an existing Amazon Route 53 hosted zone e.g kellyaudu.me
• FullDomainName - The full domain name e.g www.kellyaudu.io
• AcmCertificateArn - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an AWS certificate(Certificate must be created in us-east-1 region)

Resources to be created

• WebsiteBucket - An S3 bucket with a public read permission that stores the static assets of the website
• WebsiteBucketPolicy - Creates a bucket policy for the website bucket with a public read permission
• WebsiteCloudFront - Creates a CloudFront distribution with the website bucket as it's origin and serves traffic to the public via the custom domain
• WebsiteDNSName - Adds an Alias recordset to route53 with DNS Name pointing to the domain name of the CloudFront distribution

Outputs from operation

• BucketName - Name of s3 bucket that stores website content
• CloudfrontEndPoint - Endpoint for CloudFront distribution
• FullDomainName - Full DomainName

Validate template

aws cloudformation validate-template --template-url file:///home/testuser/mytemplate.yaml 
{
    "Description": "A cloud formation template that creates a static website that uses a custom domain to server traffic through a cloud front distribution with website static asserts hosted in an s3 bucket.:",
    "Parameters": [],
    "Capabilities": []
}