Static Website

This module creates the infrastructure for a static website hosted on AWS S3 behind a Cloudfront distribution with HTTPS and HTTP-to-HTTPS redirection. All routing is through Cloudfront, and as such this does not use the S3 Static Website configuration.

Input variables are documented in variables.tf.

This module will create these AWS resources:

aws_route53_record.aliases

• aws_s3_bucket.bucket This is required to host the site.
• aws_s3_bucket_policy.bucket_policy This defines the access policy for the Cloudfront distribution.
• aws_cloudfront_distribution.distribution This is required to enable HTTPS.
• aws_cloudfront_origin_access_control.access_control This defines the routing rules for the origin on the distibution.
• aws_cloudfront_function.function This enables serving an index.html file at the root of a directory URL as that URL (e.g. https://www.example.com/users/index.html is served as https://www.example.com/users/), as well as subdomain redirection.
• aws_route53_record.records This enables DNS lookup of the site.
• aws_route53_record.aliases (optional, if var.domains contains the TLD of the site) This enables apex redirection to another subdomain if desired, e.g. https://example.com/ -> https://www.example.com/

This module depends on these AWS resources existing:

• An AWS account (data.aws_caller_identity.account).
• A validated AWS ACM certificate (data.aws_acm_certificate.certificate) This is required for HTTPS.
• A domain in an AWS Route53 hosted zone for each top-level domain you intend to use (data.aws_route53_zone.zones).

A note on tags

In previous versions of this, there was a local variable tags that created 3 tags:

tags = {
  Executor = "Terraform"
  ApplicationType = "S3 static website"
  ApplicationHost = "AWS"
}

These were added to the aws_s3_bucket.bucket and aws_cloudfront_distribution.distribution resources, and merged with the var.application tag. The local variable is now gone. The var.application tag remains and will continue to tag these resources. To replace the tags previously supplied with local, simply provide a default_tags configuration with your aws provider.