AWS Static Website Terraform Module

Based on the cloudmaniac/terraform-aws-static-website module, this is a Terraform Module to provision an AWS static website using S3 and CloudFront, without using Route53, allowing you to use a domain with an external provider.

The redirect bucket (www.example.com redirected to example.com) has also been removed as this can be done using a URL Redirect at the domain.

Reources have been updated to suit updated Terraform and AWS provider versions.

Features

This Terraform module creates the following AWS resources:

• AWS Certificate Manager: wildcard certificate for your domain.
• S3
  • Bucket #1: to store logs.
  • Bucket #2: to store the content (example.com).
• CloudFront
  • Distribution #1: to frontend the website.

Requirements

• This module has been tested with Terraform 1.0.0.
• An AWS account and your credentials (aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key) configured. There are several ways to do this (environment variables, shared credentials file, etc.). More information in the AWS Provider documentation.
• Your domain ready to use on an external service such as namecheap.com.

Usage

You can use this github repository template, tkav/cloudfront-static-site (which uses this module) to create a new repo for a new site deployment or manually use this module using the following:

provider "aws" {
  alias   = "us-east-1"
  region  = "us-east-1"
}

module "aws_static_website" {
  source = "tkav/static-website/aws"

  website_domain_main = "example.com"
}

IMPORTANT This module uses EMAIL verification for the CloudFront distribution certificate. During deployment you will recieve an email to verify the certificate. Open the email and approve the validation request.

When completed, something like the following will be outputted:

Outputs:

cloudfront_domain = "dlimer79nfhej.cloudfront.net"

Add an @ CNAME record to your domain using the cloudfront_domain above and add a www URL Redirect record pointing to your domain:

Once complete, your site will soon be available using your domain.

Although AWS services are available in many locations, some of them require the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region to be configured:

• To use an ACM certificate with Amazon CloudFront, you must request or import the certificate in the US East (N. Virginia) region. ACM certificates in this region associated with a CloudFront distribution are distributed to all the geographic locations configured for that distribution.

For that reason, the module includes an aliased provider definition to create supplemental resources in the us-east-1 region when required. Remaining resources from the module will inherit default (un-aliased) provider configurations from the parent.

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
website_domain_main	Domain for the website (e.g., example.com)	string	-	yes

Outputs

Name	Description
cloudfront_domain	CloudFront Distribution Domain

Authors

Initial Module written by @cloudmaniac. Modified by @tkav to remove Route53 and allow use with external domain services.

Contributions and comments are welcomed.